UCF Researchers Working To Cut Alzheimer’s Plaque
12/02/2019UCF College of Medicine researchers have found an enzyme that cuts away the building blocks that form the brain plaques linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists...
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News & Information Archive
How Safe Are BPA-Free Plastics?
12/02/2019Most of us tend to look for the BPA-free labels when buying plastic food storage containers. But are these BPA-free plastics really safe? Megan Rizer,...
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Saving Smiles Through Research
12/02/2019As a young girl, Emyli Peralta was always enamored by the dentist’s office and knew early on that she wanted to help preserve smiles. Today, she...
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UCF Doctoral Student Wins Highly Competitive Chateaubriand Fellowship
11/21/2019Nicholas Castaneda, a Ph.D. student at the UCF Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, is one of 39 young scientists nationwide to receive the Chateaubriand Fellowship,...
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Dean’s Society Event Highlights Cancer-Assassins
11/15/2019“Promising,” “viable” and “critically-needed” were words College of Medicine supporters used to describe the innovative cancer research they learned about during a Dean’s Society event...
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Dr. Parks Named Associate Dean For Research
11/12/2019 Dr. Griffith Parks is the College of Medicine’s new associate dean for research. In announcing his promotion, Dr. Deborah German, vice president for health...
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“If You Think Research Is Expensive, Try Disease” — Lessons in Healthcare
11/06/2019Physicians cannot heal their patients until they understand their “life circumstances” including poverty, isolation and living in unsafe communities, a nationally recognized healthcare advocate said...
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KNIGHTS Clinic Moves To New, Larger Facility
11/05/2019Scores of uninsured Central Florida residents who rely on a UCF student-run clinic for their healthcare now have a new, more spacious location for their...
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Med Students Complete Addiction Training At Yale
10/31/2019 Two UCF medical students were among only three doctors-in-training selected for a national fellowship program on how poverty and lack of access to healthcare...
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Huntington’s Researcher Featured On WESH
10/30/2019UCF neurosciences researcher Dr. Amber Southwell was interviewed on WESH 2 News on Wednesday, speaking about Huntington’s Disease and the Team Hope Walk to raise...
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Med Students Teach Health Literacy
10/28/2019As Lake Nona High School eleventh grader Juliana Guerrero studied the nutrition facts on the labels of some of her favorite snacks, she was shocked...
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Faculty, Staff and Students Honored
10/18/2019College of Medicine team members and students were recognized for their academic excellence, service and commitment at the medical school’s annual Faculty, Staff and Student Awards...
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