Olsen Weinstein

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Dr. David Weinstein (left, with a patient) recently received a donation from the Johnny Damon Foundation to support efforts to establish a research center on the Faroe Islands, where one in 3,000 people have glycogen storage disease type III, as opposed to one in 100,000 in the general population. The effort could also lead to discoveries about high blood pressure.

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• UF to establish Faroe Island research center with help of baseball star

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ShandsCair2

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Shands at the University of Florida, Marion County Fire Rescue and ShandsCair celebrated the official ribbon cutting for ShandsCair2.

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• ShandsCair 2 provides medical-flight rescue to Marion County

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Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D., director of the UF Institute for Child Health Policy

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Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D., director of the UF Institute for Child Health Policy

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• Getting physical: UF to test if financial incentives improve health, lower costs

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COM Research Day 2012

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Michael L. Good, dean of the UF College of Medicine, and David Winchester, M.D., M.S., an assistant professor of medicine, discuss Winchester's research during the 2012 College of Medicine Celebration of Research at the Hilton UF Conference Center.

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Daniel Meldrum, M.D.

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Daniel Meldrum, M.D., chief of the division of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. (Photo by Maria Farias/University of Florida)

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• UF names Dr. Daniel Meldrum the new chief of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery

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Therapy Research Network

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Carl J. Pepine, M.D., a UF professor and eminent scholar emeritus of cardiovascular medicine, leads the UF arm of the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network, a national multidisciplinary NIH-funded consortium that seeks to discover stem cell therapies for heart disease. (Photo by Maria Farias/University of Florida)

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• NIH grant helps UF researchers explore stem cell therapies for heart disease

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Jeffrey Fair, M.D.

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Dr. Jeffrey Fair, chief of transplantation surgery in University of Florida College of Medicine

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• New chief of transplantation surgery joins UF

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Cypress Creek High School students

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Cypress Creek High School students Karla Robles, 16, Eli Beth Perdomo, 18, Denys Rijo, 16, and Amber Zaheer, 16, perform an experiment to extract DNA from strawberries with the help of UF's Center for Precollegiate Education and Training.

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• UF program aims to get girls interested in science

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Neuroscientist William G. “Bill” Luttge

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• Pioneering neuroscientist who founded UF’s McKnight Brain Institute passes away

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Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Wise, biological scientist in the oncology lab of Christopher Cogle

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Many UF scientists in different specialties are part of the Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network, a national NIH-funded consortium that researchers stem cell therapies for heart disease. (Photo by Maria Farias/University of Florida)

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