JDRF, ADA and Helmsley Charitable Trust Announce Funding of Quantitative Analysis of Insulin Purchased from Pharmacies in the U.S. NEW YORK, October 11, 2018 — JDRF International, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (Helmsley) together announce the awarding of…
Bruce A. Goldberger, Ph.D. – The Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System (FEMORS) was inaugurated in 2002. The FEMORS mission is to provide fatality management services during disaster events. The Florida Department of Health, through the Bureau of Preparedness and Response, contracts with the University of Florida, through its College…
A new study from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute (UF-EPI) scientists Dr. Tony Maurelli (Department of Environmental and Global Health) Dr. Marco Salemi (Department of Pathology) has traced the origin of dangerous new strains of bacteria that present novel threats to public health. Bacteria of the genus Shigella…
Measurement of metabolites represents the digital readout of health. A critical aspect of metabolomics is the utilization of high resolution mass spectrometric approaches to detect and identify metabolites from biological fluids and tissues. The use of multi-analyte analyses, as well as high resolution mass spectrometric approaches, has the…
Dr. Todd Brusko, Associate Professor in the Experimental Pathology Division and Diabetes Institute at the University of Florida, was awarded $1.78M from the Leona & Harry Helmsley Charitable Trust for a three year project on Type 1 Diabetes. Title: HUMAN ATLAS of NEONATAL DEVELOPMENT and EARLY LIFE-IMMUNITY (HANDEL-I) The goal…
Repurposing Existing Drugs to Treat Lupus Laurence Morel, PhD, University of FloridaDepriving Immune Cells of Sugar Saps Energy for Attack In a previous study, Dr. Morel showed that drugs that make less sugar available to immune cells could stop the development of lupus in a model of the disease.
Laurence Morel, PhD, Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs and Professor, will be the 2018 College of Medicine Graduate Convocation Speaker on Thursday, May 3rd, from 2-3pm with a reception to follow. The Graduate Student Organization student bod of the College of Medicine voted over the last few weeks…
Congratulations to Jonathan Whittamore, PhD, of the Experimental Pathology Division. He has recently received a research grant from the Oxalosis Hyperoxaluria Foundation. This award, entitled “The sulphate transporter SAT-1(SLC26a1) is essential for oxalate clearance from the liver in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1” and provides $200,000 of support for two years. The…
Dr. David Ostrov, Associate Professor in the Experimental Pathology Division, has recently published an article in JCI (The Journal of Clinical Investigation). Genes play a significant role in autoimmune diabetes. The genes most strongly associated with autoimmune diabetes produce a protein called HLA-DQ8 (HLA-DQ plays an important role in…
Congratulations to three Department of Pathology faculty who received UF Term Professorship Awards from the Dean of the College of Medicine and the Office of the Provost. Awardees for this year are Marguerite Hatch, PhD., Clayton Mathews, PhD., and Naohiro Terada, M.D., Ph.D. The University Term Professorship Program recognizes and…
