M.D./Ph.D Student is First To Receive NIH Grant
01/27/2021The American Cancer Society estimates that about 1 in 21 men and 1 in 23 women in the United States will develop colorectal cancer during their lifetime. Michael Rohr,...
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Natural Killer Cell Therapy In Trials for Treating COVID-19
10/23/2020An immunity-boosting technology developed by the College of Medicine is being tested as a potential weapon in the fight against COVID-19. UCF cancer researcher...
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UCF-Developed Cancer-Fighting Nanoparticle Heads To Clinical Trials
05/06/2020 A cell-based cancer immunotherapy that utilizes a nanoparticle developed at UCF to stimulate a patient’s natural cancer-killing cells has just received the green light...
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Zoomed-In Ph.D.s
04/16/2020 Anne Showalter put on her interview suit, checked the Wi-Fi connection to her computer and took a seat at the desk in her bedroom....
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Trustees Approve First 4 Partners For Cancer Center
03/24/2020UCF’s Board of Trustees approved Tuesday the first four partners for a new university cancer center that will bring a new level of cancer care and research...
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UCF Researcher Finds New Signal To Predict Breast Cancer Growth
02/06/2020 A tiny piece of a protein could be key to keep breast cancer from growing. A discovery at the University of Central Florida College...
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New Treatment Shows Promise For Drug Resistant Breast Cancer Cells
10/14/2019Dr. Jihe Zhao, cancer researcher at the College of Medicine,has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to develop a therapy...
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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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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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Natural Killer Cells May Open Lifesaving Cancer Treatments to More Patients
10/01/2018 Immunotherapy is making headlines for saving the lives of hundreds of cancer patients including former President Jimmy Carter. But many of these therapies, only...
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Historic Agreement Ushers in New Era for UCF, Lake Nona Medical City, Cancer Patients
08/21/2018 Cancer patients soon will benefit from a one-stop research and treatment center through a University of Central Florida project that also returns $50 million...
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Med School Can See, Count Cancer Cells In Blood, Thanks To Patient’s Family
06/28/2018On a computer screen, the enemy is a misshapen neon-colored blob – a metastatic cell that’s spreading cancer to the lungs, brain and liver. Thanks...
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