Dr. Folakemi Odedina Elected to AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Council
Folakemi Odedina, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and a professor of radiation oncology in the UF College of Medicine, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the Minorities in Cancer Research Council of the American Association for Cancer Research, or AACR. Odedina […]
How Deforestation Helps Deadly Viruses Jump From Animals to Humans
Dr. Amy Y. Vittor, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Florida, co-authored a study on how deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans. The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus. These leaps often happen […]
UF Health Awarded $1 Million Grant to Provide Pediatric Telehealth Services to Underserved Patients
The University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of pediatrics has been awarded a nearly $1 million federal grant to expand telemedicine services and equipment among underserved and vulnerable populations. The $967,957 award from the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program will be used to acquire an array of monitoring and diagnostic equipment, including tablet […]
Giving Lung Cancer Patients Better Results With Robotic Surgery
Tiago Machuca MD, Ph.D., an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine discusses in MedEd Cast podcast how robotic surgery is giving lung cancer patients better results. He shares the current treatment algorithms for early-stage lung cancer, helps to identify the potential benefits from minimally invasive thoracic surgery to treat […]
Modest Exercise Can Cue Beneficial Changes to Body’s Internal Clock, Study in Mice Shows
Just an hour of exercise a day resets the muscular “clocks” in mice by about an hour, University of Florida Health researchers have found. If replicated in humans, the findings could have important implications for using exercise to reset disrupted biological clocks in older adults and night shift workers, the researchers said. Circadian rhythms, the […]
UF College of Medicine Faculty Council Recognizes Faculty With Lifetime Achievement Awards
The UF College of Medicine Faculty Council recognized several faculty members for their contributions to medicine and medical education during a virtual ceremony. Remarks were given by UF College of Medicine Interim Dean Joseph A. Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., and Faculty Council President Emily LeBrun, M.D. Three faculty members, Bill Mendenhall, M.D.; Desmond Schatz, M.D.; and Nikolaus Gravenstein, […]
UF Division of Addiction Medicine Awarded $2.7M for Addiction Medicine Training by HRSA
The HRSA Addiction Medicine Program increases the number of fellows that can be trained at accredited Addiction Medicine Fellowship and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship programs throughout the U.S., with $20.3 million awarded to 44 recipients, including UF. The program seeks to produce more addiction medicine specialists to work in underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care […]
UF Health Cardiologist: COVID-19 Might Be a Disease of the Lungs and the Heart
As researchers continue to unravel the mysteries of COVID-19, they are increasingly realizing the disease caused by the novel coronavirus often involves more than the lungs that it ravages. It can have a devastating impact on the domain of the cardiologist: the heart. University of Florida Health cardiologist Carl J. Pepine, M.D., a professor in and former […]
UF Researcher Among 2020 ASGCT Award Recipients
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Ph.D., a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, is among the winners of 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) which recognizes an American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Member who has achieved a pioneering research success, specific high-impact accomplishment, or a lifetime of significant […]
UF Professor Named as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars. These individuals are early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, from emergency medicine and health economics to biomedical engineering and research and public health policy. The scholars are an essential part of a major NAM […]