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Leslie Galloway

Department Highlights | Fall 2024

Recent Events 10th Annual Pediatric Medical Student Research Forum The Department of Pediatrics sponsored the 10th Annual Pediatrics Medical Student Research Forum on August 31, 2024, at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort in Orlando. This was a national stage, with over 50 students from coast to coast representing over 11 states,…

Podcast: Using Gene Therapy to Help the Blind See

After decades of research, gene therapy is starting to work. Shannon Boye is a professor of cellular and molecular therapeutics at the University of Florida. She is also the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Atsena Therapeutics. Shannon’s problem is this: How do you use gene therapy to…

UF Health Pediatrics at the 2024 AAP National Conference

UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital is looking forward to meeting you at the 2024 AAP National Conference & Exhibition experience in Orlando, Florida! We invite you to learn how the University of Florida Department of Pediatrics and University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital are serving as perennial leaders in…

First point of contact

Whitney Moss, office manager for the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, plays a key role in the coordination and care of young patients.

Podcast | mRNA Cancer VaccinesPodcast |

Elias Sayour, M.D., discusses the challenges of creating therapeutic cancer vaccines, advantages for mRNA vaccines and how to adapt mRNA to treat patients with cancer.

UF researchers to test novel treatments for medulloblastoma

University of Florida researchers have received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to test two new experimental therapies in first-ever human clinical trials for a subtype of medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric malignant brain tumor.