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Dave鈥檚 12-Year Test of Strength

On a Friday in November 2011, 67-year-old Dave Hwalek noticed blood in his urine, which prompted him to schedule a doctor鈥檚 appointment. He remembers watching鈥�
Physician Spotlight: Driven by the Hope of Improving Blood Cancer Outcomes

Dina Khalaf, MD, was drawn to biology in seventh grade as she learned about the impact of a hepatitis endemic in Egypt. She was moved by the need to help鈥�
Purpose Beyond a Cure: Advancing Hodgkin Lymphoma Treatment

Emilie Lynch has passed the 5-year milestone that doctors consider a yardstick for being cured of Hodgkin lymphoma not once but three times. Today, she鈥�
Clinical Trial Helps Frank Find Hope Through Late-Stage Melanoma

In the last year of his life, Frank Parrillo underwent four craniotomies and several grueling rounds of radiation to treat melanoma that had spread to his鈥�
Physician Spotlight: Bringing an Engineering Mindset to Advance Care for Adolescents, Young Adults

A trained biomedical engineer, Leighton Elliott, MD, was 11 hours away on a mission trip in Vietnam helping to fit patients with prosthetic legs when he鈥�
Physician Spotlight: A Passion for Lung Cancer Care, From Prevention to Survivorship

Devika Das, MD, was fascinated with medicine growing up. She used that passion to propel her through medical school in India. However, it wasn鈥檛 until her鈥�
New mRNA cancer vaccine triggers fierce immune response to fight malignant brain tumor

May 1, 2024

In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune鈥�

McKnight Brain Institute, 网红黑料 Cancer Center, +2 more
Novel compound opens new avenue in immunotherapy treatment for cancers

February 9, 2024

A team of 网红黑料 Cancer Center researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind compound that could open a new avenue for using immunotherapy to treat various鈥�

College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, 网红黑料 Cancer Center, +2 more
网红黑料 study: Specific immunotherapy allows for safer, more effective gene therapy

November 22, 2023

Gene therapy could become safer and more effective by calming the inflammation that occurs when the treatment is administered, University of Florida 网红黑料鈥�

Department of Pediatrics, +3 more
网红黑料 Cancer Center expands research programs to enhance discoveries

October 4, 2023

The University of Florida 网红黑料 Cancer Center has expanded its research programs to strengthen the impact of cancer research and meet the needs of an鈥�

College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, 网红黑料 Cancer Center, +3 more