Excitement Building For Cure Bowl 2019
09/16/2019Plans for 2019’s AutoNation Cure Bowl – an NCAA football contest that helps raise money for breast cancer research – are underway with UCF Athletic...
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News & Information Archive
Dr. Copik Receives $800,000 Grant To Fight Lung Cancer
08/26/2019College of Medicine cancer researcher Dr. Alicja Copik has received a funding boost for her research into using the body’s own immune system to fight...
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Burnett Welcomes New Cohort of Grad Students
08/22/2019Growing up in Colombia, Anamaría Morales was always fascinated with science and the human body. “When I first learned about genes in high school,” she...
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Dr. Rohde Featured on The Scientists’ Channel
08/18/2019Infectious disease researcher Dr. Kyle Rohde was recently featured on The Scientists’ Channel discussing his research to identify more effective antibiotic treatments for tuberculosis by...
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Med School Welcomes New Population Health, Finance Leaders
08/04/2019The first chair of a new Population Health Sciences Department and a new finance and administration leader recently joined the UCF College of Medicine team....
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BBC Radio Features UCF Lyme Disease Research
08/04/2019Dr. Mollie Jewett, head of Immunity and Pathogenesis Research at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, was recently featured on BBC Radio’s Health Check program...
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Burnett School Awards Highest Number Of Graduate Degrees
08/01/2019A record number of graduate students from the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences collected master’s and Ph.D. diplomas during UCF’s summer commencement ceremony August 3....
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Processed Foods May Hold Key To Rise In Autism
06/20/2019With the number of children diagnosed with autism on the rise, the need to find what causes the disorder becomes more urgent every day. UCF...
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CytoSen Acquired in Potentially Record-breaking Deal
06/06/2019Biotech company CytoSen, co-founded by College of Medicine researcher, Dr. Alicja Copik is being purchased by Netherlands-based bio-pharmaceutical firm Kiadis Pharma to develop new treatments...
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UCF Among Top 100 Universities In World For Patents
06/04/2019 UCF ranks among the top 100 universities in the world when it comes to issuing patents and 31st among public universities in the nation,...
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Lyme Disease Research Featured On NBC-Affiliate News
05/16/2019Lyme disease is the leading tick-borne bacterial disease in the world resulting in more than 30,000 cases per year in the US alone. Lyme disease’s symptoms...
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Burnett Symposium Showcases Student Research
05/10/2019Having watched her big brother suffer from arthritis, Namita Varudkar knew at an early age she wanted to help solve medical mysteries. Now a third...
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