Noted clinical scientist to lead UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville

Dr. Daniel Wilson, College of Medicine-Jacksonville dean After an extensive national search, Daniel R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., has been named vice president of…

UF&Shands names chief communications officer

Melanie Fridl Ross, M.S.J., E.L.S. A nationally recognized medical writer and public relations practitioner has been named chief communications officer for…

Sea smarts: Scientists studying mollusks discover there is more than one way to make a brain

Leonid L. Moroz, Ph.D. Seemingly simple animals such as the snail and squid have ransacked the genetic toolkit over the last half billion years to find…

UF&Shands recruits health care leader as new chief quality officer

Randy Harmatz, M.B.A., chief quality officer for UF&Shands, the University of Florida Academic Health Center (Photo by Jesse Jones/University of Florida) Randy…

Male-female ring finger proportions tied to sex hormones in embryo; may offer health insights

Zhengui Zheng, Ph.D., and Martin Cohn, Ph.D., of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the department of molecular genetics and microbiology at the…

UF medicinal chemists modify sea bacteria byproduct for use as potential cancer drug

[video]http://media.news.health.ufl.edu/video/091311_Cancer_Drug.mov[/video] Hendrik Luesch, Qi-Yin Chen and Yanxia Liu, researchers with the UF College of…

Abundant food choices may overwhelm brain, reinforce overeating, UF researchers say

Authorities in the field of food addiction at the University of Florida say new research indicates that overeating and obesity problems might be effectively…

UF scientists devise way to sort brain cells for potential transplants

Hassan Azari, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate of neurosurgery at UF. (Photo by Maria Farias/University of Florida) University of Florida scientists…

New associate vice president appointed at Shands at UF

Andrew “Drew” C. Smithson will join Shands at the University of Florida as the new associate vice president of operations on June 27, according to Edward…

UF launches construction of new Clinical and Translational Research Building

Michael G. Perri, Ph.D., dean of the College of Public Health and Health Professions; David R. Nelson, M.D., director the UF Clinical and Translational Science…

‘Friendly fire’ may be at the root of Parkinson-like diseases

Todd Golde, M.D., Ph.D., director of the UF College of Medicine’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (Photo by Jesse…

Epic is live and moving forward

Shands HealthCare and the University of Florida Health Science Center are now live with an electronic medical record system called Epic EMR for inpatient and…