Space Capsule Lands at UCF College of Medicine
A space capsule is becoming the UCF College of Medicine’s newest classroom and research lab. Sierra Space, a Colorado-based private aerospace and defense technologies company,…
Meet our Preceptors: Dr. Henry Boilini, Medical City Psychiatry, WellStead Mental Health Clinic, Orlando, FL
Dr. Henry Boilini is a military veteran and psychiatrist who has continued his commitment to patient care both as a private practice psychiatrist who educates…
New UCF Student Group Exploring AI’s Role in Medicine
With the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) to learn and inform clinical skills, UCF College of Medicine students are creating a space to help…
UCF Researcher Investigates Mechanisms of Nicotine Addiction
UCF 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…
UCF Researcher Identifies 10 Potential Treatments for Rare Nerve Tumor in Children
What 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…
UCF Discovery on Immune Cells Could Illuminate Pathways to New Treatments
For generations, scientists have looked to the genetics inside immune cells for ways to improve how the body fights disease. Now, a research team led…
Med Student Driven to Create Hope Through Cancer Research Earns Inaugural Award
UCF medical student Natalya Kramer lost her grandfather to lymphoma, inspiring her to pursue medicine with hopes of caring for cancer patients and their families….
FAA Executive Physician/Scientist Joins UCF Aerospace Medicine Team
He’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…
Meet our Preceptors: Dr. Philippa Bright, Family Medicine, HCA Florida North Florida Hospital
Dr. Bright teaches UCF College of Medicine students rotating through the Family Medicine Residency and the Family Medicine Clinic at HCA Florida North Florida Hospital….
120 Students Join UCF to Become Physician Knights
Pepi Dostal was inspired to enter medicine by his grandmother, a physician who cared for her village in the Czech Republic. Often paid with eggs…
Medical Students Scatter Donor Ashes, Paying Respects to Their First Patients
UCF 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…
New UCF Study Links Microgravity, Space Radiation to Accelerated Aging
What happens to the human body in space may help scientists create new anti-aging therapies. UCF’s Michal Masternak and his team have identified molecular changes…