Category: Research

UF engineers develop game-changing neural device

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The NIH recently awarded $1.8 million to a UF engineering team developing tech to reduce recovery times, medical costs and improve patients’ quality of life.

HIV and heart disease risk

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A new UF study examines how overlapping biological, behavioral and social factors may compound health risks for people with HIV.

Decoding circadian rhythms

Doctor Karyn Esser in her lab

In this installment of Breakthroughs Begin Here, UF College of Medicine researcher Karyn Esser, Ph.D., explores how circadian rhythms regulate everything from muscle function to metabolism.

Tune into the 42nd annual York Distinguished Lecturer Series

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The York Distinguished Lecturer Series returns Nov. 16 at 11 a.m., featuring a co-presentation by Mark Subbarao, Ph.D., and Anna-Lisa Paul, Ph.D.

World Stroke Day: A Q&A with Dr. Reem Waziry

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In honor of World Stroke Day, UF PHHP Assistant Professor Reem Waziry, Ph.D., answers questions about stroke, brain health and dementia.

Meet Earl Grady, UF ESSIE’s unsung hero

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In the cavernous metal building that houses the Powell Family Structures & Materials Lab, Earl Grady is, in his own words, building dreams. As the lab’s machine shop manager on the East Campus, Grady quietly supports UF’s research mission with grit, sweat and hard-won experience.

UF researchers go weightless to explore future medicines

Graduate student Deep Thakkar, Professor Siobhan Malany and Assistant Professor Nils Averesch stand outside the plane used for the September eleventh parabolic flight.

UF researchers recently boarded parabolic flights over Zurich, Switzerland, taking experiments 30,000 feet into the air to study how human cells respond to microgravity.

Emotional support from a partner can help mitigate financial stress

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Providing emotional support – rather than trying to solve the problems at hand – can reduce how much financial stress spills over into the relationship dynamic.

Lisa Hensley named director of UF Emerging Pathogens Institute

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Internationally recognized infectious disease scientist Lisa E. Hensley, Ph.D., has been named director of the UF Emerging Pathogens Institute.

New grant boosts research aimed at ‘locking’ HIV

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A promising strategy to create a “functional cure” for HIV infection by locking the virus in its dormant “off” state has garnered a $3.4 million NIH grant.

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