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

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.

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.

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.

Bryon Petersen, an associate professor of pathology, received the Chairmen’s Distinguished Life Sciences Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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.

COM researcher Chang-Qing Xia, Ph.D., receives funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation allowing him to partner with industry to test a diabetes prevention therapy.