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News and Events:

• UF advocate in the fight against diabetes speaks to congressional panel.
  Ten-year-old Cassidy O'Neill has Type 1 diabetes, but she isn't the only one in her family fighting for a cure.
• UF expert: In the quest to cure Type 1 diabetes, scientists must develop better research standards
  “We haven't given up, we need to keep moving forward with as much passion as ever...”
• UF receives $4.7 million to study marijuana's role in immunity among HIV-positive adolescents.
  Findings from this study could translate into better diagnosis tools and new therapies to improve long-term outcomes for young adults infected with HIV.

• UF scientists discover clues to inflammatory disease
  New clues about how inflammation starts could help shut down the process early.

• UF researchers discover distinct type of virus in cancer tissue of HIV-positive patients with lymphoma
  Discovery may help with the development of cancer therapies for both HIV-positive and non-infected people.

• UF receives $3 million grant to study type 1 diabetes
  The five-year NIH grant continues funding for studies aimed at preventing or delaying the onset of type 1 diabetes.

• UF shines blue for diabetes
  During November, the University of Florida will shine a “blue” spotlight on diabetes with several events planned to raise awareness and promote prevention of the disease.

• Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in central and east Africa
  University of Florida scientists explain why two subtypes of HIV-1 -- the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS -- held steady at relatively low levels for more than 50 years in west central Africa before erupting as an epidemic in east Africa in the 1970s.