Advancing Health Research

University of Florida health researchers are expanding collaboration with Mount Kenya University (MKU), one of the largest private universities in Africa.

Nine UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have been awarded pilot funding for innovative cancer research projects that aim to advance our understanding of how cancer develops and resists treatment, as well develop novel strategies for preventing cancer and personalizing treatment.

At-home kits that allow women to collect their own samples for HPV testing have been shown to improve cervical cancer screening rates. But some women lack confidence in their ability to complete the collection themselves.

Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, researchers have found.

“This fellowship is a great opportunity to dive deeply into the needs of patients and providers and address their barriers to lung cancer screening.” The National Cancer Institute awarded a prestigious fellowship in July to dual M.D./Ph.D. student Miranda Reid to…

Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., Professor and Division Director for Implementation Science and Health Interventions has been appointed to serve on the Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare Study Section (SIHH), a standing study section in the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“Excessive screening opens the door for a lot of negative consequences,” said Jennifer LeLaurin, Ph.D., an assistant professor of health outcomes and biomedical informatics at the University of Florida and lead author of the new study.

This new implementation research, titled Monitoring Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes During Cancer Treatment, will collect data from cancer patients over two years to investigate how the feedback system affects provider workload and patient behavior.

The University of Florida is participating in a large national program to create an efficient and mobile healthcare delivery system for rural areas, awarded by Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.  As hundreds of hospitals in rural areas struggle to survive financially,…

Women undergoing treatments following breast cancer surgery may face a significant risk of heart disease, according to new findings from a research team at the University of Florida. The study found that 20 percent of post-operative breast cancer patients experienced heart problems after receiving secondary treatments such as chemotherapy.