New UCF Student Group Exploring AI’s Role in Medicine
09/28/2026With the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) to learn and inform clinical skills, UCF College of Medicine students are creating a space to help...
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News & Information Archive
UCF Researcher Investigates Mechanisms of Nicotine Addiction
09/25/2026UCF assistant professor and researcher at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences Cali Calarco is exploring how nicotine affects brain cells, providing insights that could ultimately help improve treatments for addiction. Through a nearly five-year, $943,000-plus grant from the...
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UCF Researcher Identifies 10 Potential Treatments for Rare Nerve Tumor in Children
09/23/2026What if an existing drug could be repurposed to treat a rare disease? That’s the question UCF researchers are exploring with the help of artificial...
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UCF Discovery on Immune Cells Could Illuminate Pathways to New Treatments
09/15/2026For generations, scientists have looked to the genetics inside immune cells for ways to improve how the body fights disease. Now, a research team led...
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Med Student Driven to Create Hope Through Cancer Research Earns Inaugural Award
08/27/2026UCF medical student Natalya Kramer lost her grandfather to lymphoma, inspiring her to pursue medicine with hopes of caring for cancer patients and their families....
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FAA Executive Physician/Scientist Joins UCF Aerospace Medicine Team
08/21/2026He’s an experienced skydiver, private pilot and scuba diver whose hero since childhood has been moon-walker Neil Armstrong. And now Melchor Antuñano is a UCF...
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Meet our Preceptors: Dr. Philippa Bright, Family Medicine, HCA Florida North Florida Hospital
08/17/2026Dr. Bright teaches UCF College of Medicine students rotating through the Family Medicine Residency and the Family Medicine Clinic at HCA Florida North Florida Hospital....
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UCF Scientist to Explore Precise Treatment Targeting Weak Spots in Lyme Disease Bacteria
08/13/2026Triggered by a near painless tick bite, Lyme disease causes severe pain and inflammation for more than 475,000 people in the U.S annually, according to...
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120 Students Join UCF to Become Physician Knights
08/03/2026Pepi Dostal was inspired to enter medicine by his grandmother, a physician who cared for her village in the Czech Republic. Often paid with eggs...
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From the Clinic to the Cockpit: UCF Opens New FAA-Designated Clinic for Pilots
07/30/2026Minutes from one of the world’s most visited airports, The University of Central Florida has opened a new clinic to help pilots meet Federal Aviation...
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UCF Students, VA Doctor Develop AI Tool to Help Doctors Identify Chronic Pelvic Pain
07/28/2026For millions of women living with chronic pelvic pain (CPP), finding answers can take far too long. Studies have shown the condition affects nearly one...
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Medical Students Scatter Donor Ashes, Paying Respects to Their First Patients
07/14/2026UCF Medical students recently traveled to the Atlantic Ocean to spread the ashes of their first patients – donors who willed their body to science to train the next...
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