Department Highlights | Spring 2024
In Memoriam 1935 – 2024 Arlan L. Rosenbloom, MD Learn More About Dr. Rosenbloom…
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New tool for assessing dehydration is built for global deployment
For adults and older children, dehydration from diarrhea is a common, pervasive threat: Annually, more than 1 million die from it.
Tech Tuesday – Barry Byrne
In this week’s Tech Tuesday for WCJB TV20, UF Innovate’s Loren Miranda speaks with Dr. Barry Byrne, Associate Chair of Pediatrics and Director of the UF Powell Gene Therapy Center.
Dr. Haller Speaks on ADA Diabetes Core Update podcast
Michael Haller, MD discusses the recent study and publication Low-Dose Antithymocyte Globulin: A Pragmatic Approach to Treating Stage 2 Type 1 Diabetes…
Study: UF is world’s top-ranked institution for published gene therapy research
The University of Florida is the world’s top contributor to scientific knowledge and literature about a widely used gene therapy technique, according to newly published research.
UF College of Medicine to use $3.5 million in strategic funding for transforming patient care
The first initiative is the Regional Center for Development of Advanced Therapeutics Based on Cell and Gene Therapy, which was awarded $1.5 million over three years. Funding will support the development of a first-of-its-kind center in the Southeast that will help bring to market novel treatments in advanced…
UF Health study: Specific immunotherapy allows for safer, more effective gene therapy
Gene therapy could become safer and more effective by calming the inflammation that occurs when the treatment is administered, University of Florida Health researchers have found.
Atsena Therapeutics Receives FDA Designation for Treatment of Severe Congenital Eye Disease Using Gene Therapy
The company was created by ocular gene therapy pioneers Dr. Shannon Boye and Associate Scientist Sanford Boye, who also run the Shannon E. Boye Laboratory in the UF College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. The lab creates technology aimed at restoring retinal function and visually-guided behavior, as well as preserving…
Tech Tuesday: A Helpful Virus
In this Tech Tuesday for WCJB TV20, UF Innovate’s Melanie Morón interviews Dr. Arun Srivastava from the University of Florida’s College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics who introduces us to a virus — the adeno-associated virus or AAV — that cures rather than infects. AAV has cured nine…
Minds and Machines
brandon zielinski md phd associate professor Addressing autism spectrum disorder.UF neuroscientists are studying autism in new ways, from Padilla-Coreano’s research to that of pediatric neurologist Brandon Zielinski, MD, PhD, who uses MRI to analyze the structure and function of brain networks as they develop. Zielinski investigates whether there is a developmental trajectory difference…
