Two first year Epidemiology PhD students, Shannan Rich and Veronica Richards, won best poster for Phylogenetic Inference at the 23rd International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME2018) in Berlin, Germany. VEME 2018 was in part organized by Epidemiology Associate Professor and Preeminence Faculty, Mattia Prosperi, MEng, PhD,…
Dr. Robert L. Cook, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Southern HIV Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC) and Director of the SHARC Center for Translational HIV Research together with Dr. Robert Leeman, and Dr. Robert Lucero, are pleased to announce that they have received a National Institute of Alcohol…
Director of the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Division of Loan Repayment (LRP), Ericka Boone, Ph.D, came to the University of Florida as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) 2018 Research Day. Dr. Boone’s keynote presentation was on the LRP initiative at the NIH. She is…
The Southern HIV Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC), located at the University of Florida, has received a $2.6 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to support its research and training activities aimed at improving HIV-related outcomes among Florida residents. Florida has the…
Linda Cottler, PhD, MPH, FACE, Associate Dean for Research and Planning for the College of Public Health and Health Professions and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology has recently been elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS). This association…
Before pharmaceutical companies can put drugs on the market, the Food and Drug Administration requires years of stringent clinical research to see if they will be effective and safe in the general population. But one thing often is lacking in those trials — participants from minority groups. With different genetic…
The use of molecular epidemiology methods for identifying and tracking epidemic transmission clusters has recently gained traction, but these methods are not equipped to identify transmission clusters and their corresponding dynamics in real time. Now, University of Florida researchers, with support from a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
This year’s Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) in Epidemiology had different activities throughout the week of April 2nd-6th. On Monday, an all-day treasure hunt! Gold “doubloons” were scattered around the department for students to find! If found, students were able to receive an additional prize. On Tuesday, games…
Research Assistant Scientist in Epidemiology, Yan Wang, PhD, was unanimously accepted to the UF’s Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows program on campus. Housed within the Warrington College of Business Administration’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the program celebrates scholars who think and act in entrepreneurial ways. It is open to…
Assistant Professor in Epidemiology Lusine Yaghjyan, MD, MPH, PhD, and Associate Professor in Epidemiology Volker Mai, PhD, MPH, were recently awarded a $42,000 collaborative, multiple P.I. pilot grant from the UF Health Cancer Center (UFHCC) Cancer Therapeutics and Host Response Program Collaborative Team. Dr. Yaghjyan’s research focuses on…
