UCF Researcher Develops “Smart, Tiny Bubbles” to Treat Cancer and Heart Disease
05/20/2026A cell 500 times thinner than a human hair could heal hearts and kill cancer cells, thanks to a patent-pending technology created by a UCF...
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“FIRE’D” Up About Med School Research
05/13/2026College of Medicine students presented their original research May 11 — on topics ranging from cancer to whether patients trust when their doctors use artificial...
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Dr. Khaled is 2026 Pegasus Professor
03/27/2026Dr. Annette Khaled, who leads the UCF College of Medicine’s Cancer Research Division, has been recognized as a Pegasus Professor, the university’s highest honor. She...
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Progressing the Final Frontier of Medicine: Space
03/18/2026UCF’s leading space medicine experts, valued strategic partners and an astronaut who holds NASA’s record for spacewalks will gather April 10 in Lake Nona’s Medical...
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UCF Researchers Fight Breast, Prostate Cancer with Targeted Therapies Backed by 2 New Grants
09/15/2025A UCF team of researchers is refining their gameplan to tackle cancer. Dr. Annette Khaled, who leads the College of Medicine’s cancer research division, recently...
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Cancer Researchers Help UCF Earn Top 20 U.S. Public Universities for Patents
03/11/2025UCF ranks among the top 20 U.S. public universities for utility patents granted, including two from cancer researchers at the College of Medicine, the National...
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UCF Research Advances Understanding of Sarcomas
10/03/2024A UCF College of Medicine researcher is working with researchers from Yale School of Medicine to expand the understanding of sarcomas – a rare and...
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UCF Medical Researchers Earn Grants for Innovative Approaches to Breast Cancer
10/01/2024As Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins, two College of Medicine cancer researchers have received statewide grants to support their innovative projects to fight a disease...
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Congressman Soto Presents UCF Funding for Pathogen Surveillance, Research
07/23/2024A $900,000 congressional appropriation will help the UCF College of Medicine create a pathogen surveillance and research core to identify and address future pandemics. U.S....
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Two Earn College’s First M.D./Ph.D. Degrees
05/16/2024Friday’s UCF College of Medicine commencement brings the program’s first M.D./Ph.D. graduates – physician-scientists who conducted advanced research while learning to care for patients. Michael...
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UCF Researchers Develop Novel Therapy For Incurable Brain Cancer
03/11/2024College of Medicine researchers are developing a more effective way to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive, incurable form of brain cancer. Patients currently live just 12...
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UCF “Beefing Up” Natural Killer Cells To Stop Cancer
01/29/2024A UCF cancer researcher is discovering ways that the body’s own Natural Killer cells can be energized to fight deadly pediatric cancers and improve immunotherapy...
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