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Dr. Guryanova wins Rising Star Award

During the College of Medicine’s Celebration of Research one of our own faculty members, Dr. Olga Guryanova, was awarded the Rising Star Award in Basic and Translational Science. Please help us congratulate her on this amazing achievement.

Publication Alert: Sweeney Lab

Congratulations to the Sweeney Lab on their recent publication: “Modulating fast skeletal muscle contraction protects skeletal muscle in animal models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy” The publication explored the role of fast skeletal muscle contraction in DMD with a novel, selective, orally active inhibitor of fast skeletal muscle myosin,…

Publication Alert: Wesson Lab

Congratulations to the Wesson lab on their recent publication: “Machine learning-based clustering and classification of mouse behaviors via respiratory patterns” The research uncovers a wide diversity in breathing patterns across spontaneous, attractive odor-, stress-, and fear-induced behaviors in mice. With collaborators the lab implemented a supervised machine learning…

Grant Alert: Natalie Johnson

Congratulations to Natalie Johnson for receiving a prestigious Dissertation Research Grant from UF’s Center for Addiction Research and Education! Mentor: Dr. Dan Wesson; Title: The impact of attractive e-cigarette odors on nicotine reward.

Publication Alert: Wesson Lab

Congratulations to the Wesson Lab on their recent publication: “Organization and engagement of a prefrontal-olfactory network during olfactory selective attention” The lab reports integration of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a collection of brain regions integral to attention, with the olfactory system in the context of…

Publication Alert: Julien Habif

Please help us congratulate Julien Habif on his recent publication titled “The role of a ciliary GTPase in the regulation of neuronal maturation of olfactory sensory neurons.” Julien works under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Martens, whom is also credited in the publication. Chao Xie…

Grant Alert: Dr. Brian Law

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Law for his two new grants funded by the Florida Department of Health: -Reducing racial disparity in breast cancer survival with a novel synthetic-lethal strategy-Optimizing novel small molecule activators of Death Receptor 5 for breast cancer therapy…

Publication Alert: Gregory Takacs

Please help us congratulate Gregory Takacs and Dr. Jeffrey Harrison on their recent publication titled “Glioma-derived CCL2 and CCL7 mediate migration of immune suppressive CCR2+/CX3CR1+ M-MDSCs into the tumor microenvironment in a redundant manner”. The study determined that CCR2 and its cognate ligands are prominent…

Gregory Takacs wins UF Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Award

Congratulations to Greg Takacs, a BMS PhD student in Dr. Jeff Harrison’s lab, for receiving one of the 2022 UF Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Awards! The awards recognize and support outstanding predoctoral candidates who are conducting innovative cancer research. Dissertation Title: “Investigating mechanisms of CCR2+ myeloid…