Brain Cancer Awareness Month: Marissa vs. the Worst of the Worst

Marissa Valencia suddenly felt sick. Then, when she tried to speak, nothing that came out made sense. Her friend sitting across the table from her over lunch…

Fighting pediatric cancer focus of V Foundation-UF Health collaboration

April 28, 2022

In pursuit of its ongoing mission to achieve Victory Over Cancer®, the V Foundation for Cancer Research announced its renewed support and a new $250,000 grant…

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Cole Dooley, M.D., is no stranger to pediatric cancer. As both a pediatric anesthesiologist and the father of a child with incurable cancer, the realities of…

UF Health Shands Hospital ranked best in Florida, among nation’s elite in wide range of specialties

July 28, 2020

University of Florida Health Shands Hospital emerged as Florida’s top health center and one of the nation’s elite in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21…

For UF researchers, pausing and resuming work has brought major challenges, sparked innovation

July 27, 2020

Media contact: Ken Garcia at kdgarcia@ufl.edu or 352-273-9799 David P. Norton, Ph.D., has spent nearly a decade building a collaborative, leading-edge research…

Quicker reviews, designated funding is speeding COVID-19 research efforts at UF Health

May 14, 2020

University of Florida Health researcher Mark Brantly, M.D., and his team are working to evaluate a drug treatment for the novel coronavirus that might block…

Renowned brain tumor researcher to lead UF’s efforts to move research discoveries to patients

April 23, 2020

A leading expert in the search for ways to treat aggressive adult and pediatric brain tumors, Duane A. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., will direct the University of…

UF brain tumor researcher embarks on first-in-human clinical trial of novel immunotherapy vaccine

March 30, 2020

UF Health pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D., has received a $2.5 million grant from the pediatric cancer foundation CureSearch for Children’s…

12 leading medical centers unite to form brain tumor research collaborative

February 19, 2020

Today, the UF Health-led ReMission Alliance Against Brain Tumors announced the names of 12 partner institutions from across the U.S. and Canada that are…

New combination therapy slows deadly brain tumor in mice, UF Health researchers find

December 26, 2019

As the deadliest primary brain tumor, glioblastoma is a stubborn foe. In addition to being aggressive, glioblastoma hasn’t responded to immunotherapies that…