UF doctors among first to administer therapy for rare disease
Shands registered nurse Ivy Kelley prepares Monique Griffin for an intravenous infusion of Lumizyme on Wednesday, June 16. Lumizyme is the first commercially…

Shands registered nurse Ivy Kelley prepares Monique Griffin for an intravenous infusion of Lumizyme on Wednesday, June 16. Lumizyme is the first commercially…
Scientists including researchers from the University of Florida have discovered additional evidence that generalized vitiligo — a disease that typically causes…
Martin Cohn, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist with the UF College of Medicine, led a research team that discovered how a gene memorably…
Dr. Melvin Greer, the iconic first chairman of the Department of Neurology at UF Dr. Melvin Greer, the iconic first chairman of the Department of Neurology at…
Ben Dunn, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the College of Medicine and director of the UF-HHMI Science for Life…
University of Florida researchers will receive $250,000 to study an inventive cell-transfer therapy to treat cortical dysplasia, a condition where the brain…
Dr. Irene Malaty, an assistant professor of neurology and National Parkinson Foundation medical director at the Movement Disorders Center. University of…
K. Kendall Pierson, M.D., a longtime member of the department of pathology in the College of Medicine, died on Wednesday, March 24. Dr. Pierson joined the…
Brian Harfe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine (Photo by Anney Doucette)…
Todd Golde, M.D., professor of neuroscience in the College of Medicine The director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at…
Nothing built by human hands compares with the brain — the most complex living structure known in the universe. But when tumors attack, people count on human…
Marco Salemi, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the UF College of Medicine. (Photo by Sarah…