Advancing Health Research
HOP Faculty to Work with Medical Students in Research Program
Five University of Florida College of Medicine students have chosen to work under the mentorship of HOP faculty in the 2016 Medical Student Research Program (MSRP). The program allows first-year medical students to conduct a 10-week research project while receiving academic course credit. Participating students also receive a scholarship of…
HOP Faculty Awarded Pilot Grant to Develop Diabetes Mentoring Program for Youth
While low socioeconomic status is known to negatively affect children with Type 1 Diabetes, little is known about the underlying causes of such disparities.
HOP Faculty Member Instructs NCI Staff on Research Methods Using Social Media
The National Cancer Institute invited Jiang Bian, Ph.D., to hold a workshop for its program officers, students and researchers on methods for mining and analyzing data from social media sources to further health research.
HOP Faculty Selected as NIH-funded Keystone Symposia Fellow
The Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology has named Dominick Lemas, Ph.D., as one of ten fellows in its two-year fellowship program for minority junior faculty.
HOP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Chosen for AcademyHealth Scholarship
Martin Wegman, a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, was awarded the Alice S. Hersh Student.