New AI Partnership and Innovation Hub poised to transform the UF College of Pharmacy

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new artificial intelligence hub at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy will centralize the college’s diverse AI efforts,…

Older surgery patients report less pain, and why that’s dangerous

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new study raises questions about how to manage pain after surgery, especially for older adults. Researchers found that patients 65 and…

A nurse cares for a patient, who is laying in a hospital bed.

Scientists discover new target in potential pancreatic cancer treatment

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida Health scientists helped find a promising new way to attack and kill pancreatic cancer cells by identifying an…

AI tool speeds acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of University of Florida Health researchers has developed a digital tool that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the…

Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D. (right), associate dean for research and graduate education and a professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research in the UF College of Pharmacy, works with Francisco Marchi (left), a graduate student in the Lamba Lab. Photo courtesy of UF Health / Jesse Jones.

UF Health researchers propose AI model to predict mortality in coronary artery disease patients

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An interdisciplinary team led by University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers has proposed an artificial intelligence, or AI,…

Md Mahmudul Hasan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy and the UF Warrington College of Business Department of Information Systems and Operations Management.

Groundbreaking AI tool generates 3D map of the brain

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It is a detailed view of the brain like never seen before. In a significant technological leap, University of Florida researchers have…

Building digital twin tools to investigate environmental threats to health

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Virtual patients with diseases that precisely mimic real-life patients are the next frontier in medicine. Such “digital twins” would allow…

UF study uses machine learning to predict opioid use disorder treatment interruptions

Media contact: Tyler Francischine, tyler413@ufl.edu, 352-273-8199 By Tyler Francischine GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida researchers have developed a…

UF Health researchers find new method to use MRIs to delve into secrets of brain aging

GAINESVILLE — Life experience continually shapes the health of the human brain, for better or worse, like a bank receiving a lifetime of deposits and…

A computer screen displays the brain MRIs of several individuals. This image is not related to the UF Health brain aging study. (Getty Images.)

UF Health project seeks to help mothers in need

University of Florida Health has launched an ambitious project to minimize the health risk of pregnancy by identifying, addressing and tracking social…

A doctor points to an expectant mother's sonogram. (Getty Images)

UF neuroscientist uses AI to map learning, decision-making, to discover how brains work

With trial and error, repetition and praise, when a puppy hears “Sit!” they learn what they’re expected to do. That’s reinforcement learning, and it’s a…

UF neuroscientist Ryoma Hattori, Ph.D., uses both advanced laboratory techniques, including virtual reality and 2-photon imaging, plus AI to make discoveries about how the brain learns and makes decisions. He recently joined The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology in Jupiter, Florida.

Genetic score advances personalized treatment strategies with promising AML drug

In the latest development in precision medicine approaches to treating pediatric leukemia, UF Health researchers have developed a genetic score to predict…