Duane Mitchell’s team at the University of Florida is a world leader in understanding how the body’s own immune system can be marshaled to fight cancers, especially brain cancers, in children and adults. It’s a big job, managing grants, directing clinical trials, writing journal articles, courting donors and countless other things.
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UF scientist says drastic shifts in behavior appear to be having an effect in the pandemic, though they say the death toll will continue to mount and caution against drawing any sweeping conclusions.
UF researchers join the worldwide response to ebola
New finding lends hope in the fight against glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest brain cancer in adults
A dollop of peanut butter and a ruler can be used to confirm a diagnosis of early stage Alzheimer’s disease
“Do you remember what it was like in March and April when we had to mobilize the intellectual resources of...
New tools to illuminate the disease
UF researchers are working with CRISPR-based technology to create quick testing for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Innovative programs helps physicians become researchers
This finding could someday lead to more effective treatment of drug addictions and neurological disorders
In a medical field like critical care, where time can mean life or death, a sepsis diagnosis is like the...
At least a month before Florida recorded its first case of COVID-19, the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute had...