UF trustee champions medical education program with $5 million gift

The donation bolsters medical school’s $45 million building project A member of the University of Florida Board of Trustees and his wife have made a $5 million…

McKnight Foundation creates lectureship honoring former director of UF McKnight Brain Institute

The McKnight Brain Research Foundation has endowed the University of Florida with $300,000 to establish a permanent annual lectureship in memory of the late…

UF receives $1 million from W.M. Keck Foundation to study mechanisms of inherited disease

The Center for NeuroGenetics at the University of Florida has received a highly competitive $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study a new idea…

$5 million gift from Miami couple to boost gene therapy research at the University of Florida

For the past 12 years, University of Florida researchers at the Powell Gene Therapy Center have pioneered gene therapies aimed at helping patients with…

$10 million Wells Foundation gift will enable UF to speed brain tumor remedies

A $10 million gift from the Lillian S. Wells Foundation Inc. to the University of Florida department of neurosurgery will help medical scientists better…

UF mourns passing of physician who pioneered field of interventional radiology

Irvin Franklin “Dick” Hawkins, M.D., a professor of radiology and surgery at UF for more than 50 years One of the University of Florida’s most esteemed…

Gift from METI founder helps advance use of technology in medical education at UF

A new professorship established in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida will help further integrate the use of innovative technology in medical…

COM celebrates 50th Commencement

[flv]http://media.news.health.ufl.edu/video/5_24_10_COM_Grad.mov[/flv] Just as 49 classes did before them, the 130 members of the UF College of Medicine class…

UF appoints new senior associate dean for educational affairs

The University of Florida College of Medicine has appointed Dr. Joseph C. Fantone as its next senior associate dean for educational affairs, effective June 1.…

Byrne is no stranger to ‘Extraordinary Measures' when it comes to Pompe disease

Dr. Barry Byrne(left) and movie producer Michael Shamberg on the set of "Extraordinary Measures." seminar or to present a research paper. He will be attending…

Haiti Relief Video

Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine and an eminent scholar for diabetes research at the…