The five-year NIH grant continues funding for studies aimed at preventing or delaying the onset of type 1 diabetes.

Dr. James Seeger’s influence will forever guide us, and his memory will never be forgotten.

During November, the University of Florida will shine a “blue” spotlight on diabetes with several events planned to raise awareness and promote prevention of the disease.

Discovery could lead to new preventative and curative treatments.

Dr. Paul Okunieff has been named director of the University of Florida Shands Cancer Center and chairman of the UF College of Medicine department of radiation oncology.

Studying triggers in cells’ transition from colitis to cancer, UF colorectal surgeon Emina Huang, M.D., has found blocking two hormones could inhibit tumor growth.

The University of Florida College of Medicine’s psychiatry department adds new eating disorder and obesity division.

University of Florida scientists explain why two subtypes of HIV-1 — the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS — held steady at relatively low levels for more than 50 years in west central Africa before erupting as an epidemic in east Africa in the 1970s.

Jamie Beth Conti, M.D., was appointed chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine.

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.