Newly identified mechanism could be target for new therapies.

Discovery could lead to new preventative and curative treatments.

UF will receive $29.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds to study mobility disabilities in seniors. Federal funding for the project will exceed $60 million over six years.

UF joins prestigious national consortium of medical research institutions.

Almost half of kidney transplant candidates older than 60 die before getting a deceased-donor organ.

UF researchers use new gene therapy method to disrupt cancer growth by using a synthetic protein to induce clotting in tumor blood vessels.

HyGreen hand hygiene system can help reduce infections and save money by reminding hospital workers to clean their hands to remove pathogens.

Researchers identify new cellular target for HIV drug development.

A UF evolutionary biology group joins other world experts in investigating the genetic origins of the current flu outbreak.

Marco Salemi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the UF College of Medicine, has won a five-year, $3.5 million NIH grant to probe the genetic origins of HIV-associated dementia.