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Archive for 2009



Stop! Children’s Cancer awards $150,000 in grants for pediatric cancer research

By Christine Velasquez • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Staff

Researchers at the College of Medicine receive grant from local nonprofit to further research in leukemia, glioblastoma and neuroblastoma.

UF plastic surgery shows off its new makeover

By Jennifer Brindise • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Miscellaneous, Surgery

The new UF plastic surgery office touts private feel and central location.

Scientists link genetic glitches to common childhood cancer

By April Frawley Birdwell • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Miscellaneous

Researchers have discovered two genetic glitches linked to an increased risk for the most common childhood cancer in the United States.

Summer days lead to research projects for first-year students

By Priscilla Santos • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Neurology, Students

Rather than traveling and relaxing during their last free summer in medical school, some College of Medicine students  embarked on research projects instead. Second-year medical student Mohammad Qureshi is one of them.
Qureshi became fascinated with neurology during the neuroanatomy course he took his first year. That fascination led him to pursue a service project in [...]