UF Health pediatric and adult ECMO program earns prestigious international award

UF Health teams who operate unique machines that help keep patients alive at their most vulnerable moments have been honored with an international award for…

UF zoological resident travels to Madagascar to rescue endangered tortoises

Earlier this year, authorities in Madagascar seized more than 10,000 endangered tortoises that poachers had crammed into a house on the island off the east…

UF student earns APS research fellowship

Krystal Glasford left the small, Caribbean island of Saint Kitts when she was 20 years old. She knew she wanted to pursue a career in medicine and needed to go…

Love of animals, business prowess earns UF veterinary faculty member Weeks Endowed Professorship

Martha Mallicote grew up riding and showing horses, so her decision to study veterinary medicine as a way to manage horses was hardly a surprise to those who…

Students learn lifesaving lessons at mass casualty exercise

Annie Alexis didn’t know who to help first. So many things were happening at once, she said. People were screaming, others were bleeding and some appeared to…

UF Diabetes Institute director to receive national honor for research achievements

Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., director of the University of Florida Diabetes Institute, has been selected to receive the American Diabetes Association’s 2018 Albert…

UF veterinary expert to receive Professional Achievement Award from alma mater

Terry Curtis, D.V.M, a clinical behaviorist in the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of small animal clinical sciences, has…