The University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute has received three grants totaling $1.25 million from the National Institutes of Health to support research that will expand opportunities to conduct community-based clinical research in Florida, offer personalized medicine to patients and improve clinical trial design. The three projects involve teams of researchers from multiple [...]

 Saying that the planned Clinical and Translational Research Building at UF will be a “a huge boon to our research efforts and our preventive health activities,” UF President Bernie Machen and other officials broke ground for a new home for research that will speed scientific discoveries to patients. “For the first time clinical research [...]

The University of Florida today will launch construction on its new Clinical and Translational Research Building, a new home for research that will speed scientific discoveries to patients. Set for completion in January 2013, the $45 million, 120,000-square-foot complex will spark collaboration and spur medical advances by bringing together research teams from a range of [...]

The University of Florida and the Florida State University College of Medicine today jointly received $600,000 from the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida to strengthen research, education and service efforts in public health and to boost economic growth. The award, under the 2010 New Florida Initiative Scholar’s Clustering Grant Program, [...]

Tooth discoloration is, understandably, a concern and a research area for dentists. But grapefruit discoloration? Ever since her recent move into the Emerging Pathogens Institute, Ozlem Yilmaz, D.D.S., Ph.D., a dentist and associate professor in the College of Dentistry, doesn’t think it’s all that strange. Talking with plant pathologists in her building, she found out [...]

How information from cancer research trials are reported in scientific journals may impact how quickly new treatments become therapies that can benefit human health. Only 11 percent of 262 scientific articles had all of the information clinicians say is needed to prescribe and monitor new cancer therapies for their patients, according to University of Florida [...]

Imagine a chemistry professor and a neuroscientist working together to test a new drug to fight Alzheimer’s disease, or a biomedical engineer working with an orthopedic surgeon to help patients walk again. At the University of Florida, teamwork is often considered the shortest route toward solving human health problems. But more than that, novel collaborations [...]

Source: Winfred M. Phillips, UF Vice President for Research, 352-392-9271 or wphil@ufl.edu. David Nelson, M.D., has been named director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Florida. Nelson, a professor of medicine and a leader in liver transplantation and hepatology at the UF College of Medicine, is engaged in multidisciplinary approaches [...]

Pain affects people differently. For example, studies have shown that African-American and Hispanic people tend to have stronger responses to pain than white people. The question is why? With funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, University of Florida College of Dentistry researcher Roger Fillingim, Ph.D., has received a $713,000 revision to [...]

The director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Florida received the MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease during a scientific briefing and luncheon today (Thursday, Feb. 25) in Washington, D.C. Todd Golde, M.D., a professor of neuroscience in the College of Medicine, studies amyloid beta [...]