Category: Research

Meet Earl Grady, UF ESSIE’s unsung hero

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 University of Florida’s 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

Two people hugging, one seen smiling over the others shoulder

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

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

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.

UF researchers advance personalized epilepsy surgery

Doctor Babjani sitting in the MEG lab looking at computer screen

In a new NIH-funded project, researchers combine various techniques to predict how different surgical approaches could affect a patient’s language function.

Tell Me All About It with Dr. Victoria Pagán

Doctor Pagan standing with Albert and Alberta outside of the U F football stadium

In this episode of Tell Me All About It, WUFT sits down with Professor of Classics Victoria Pagán, Ph.D., UF’s 2024–25 Teacher/Scholar of the Year.

Does a diagnosis change what you put in your grocery cart?

A person reaching for produce at a grocery store

When someone is diagnosed with a chronic illness such as diabetes or heart disease, one of the recommendations is often to change what they eat.

Suppressing tics key to treatment for Tourette syndrome

A person with Tourette's experiencing a facial tic

Suppressing tics can be distracting and exhausting, yet decades of research has shown that tic suppression can be strengthened and used therapeutically.

Breakthroughs begin here

Weizhou Zhang, Ph.D., recently led a multidisciplinary team of researchers to create a drug that effectively kills aggressive acute myeloid leukemia cells.