During this year’s two-day Celebration of Research event, seven University of Florida College of Medicine faculty members received recognition for their contributions as outstanding, rising star and pioneering researchers in their respective fields.
A UF College of Medicine research team launched a six-month pilot award study in February that applies AI to brain tumor research. The team will investigate MRI imaging to improve predictions of how the immune systems of brain tumor patients respond to therapies. The grant from UF Health’s…
At last year’s event, HOBI postdoctoral associate Rola Zeidan, Ph.D., won a community health award for the research poster “Iron levels in Postmenopausal Women.”
Three instructors from the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics were honored by the College of Medicine with a 2025 Exemplary Teacher Award. They are: Professor Carla Fisher, Ph.D., M.S.W. Associate Professor Megan Gregory Ph.D. Assistant Professor…
HOBI graduate Dr. Jeremy Balch, M.D., Ph.D., a general-surgery resident and recent doctoral graduate in biomedical informatics, received the AI Research Dissertation Award for developing AI tools that improve surgical safety and efficiency.
“Our research team brought together diverse data sources on red tide and human health, allowing us to show, perhaps for the first time, that there appears to be a causal connection between these phenomena,” said Yi Guo, Ph.D.
Please join me in congratulating Yi Guo, PhD, FAMIA, on being appointed as Division Chief for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.
Patients with early-stage kidney injuries typically receive very similar treatments, but a new artificial intelligence study shows that distinct groups within this population may have varying needs and could benefit from more personalized treatment methods.
Faculty member Mei Liu, Ph.D., has co-authored two recent journal articles about COVID-19 in children. The articles were both published in April 2025 in the journals JAMA Network Open and PLOS Digital Health
UF Health Cancer Center member Rui Yin, Ph.D., has received a grant from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation to develop leading-edge artificial intelligence technologies to identify microRNA (miRNA) interactions in colorectal cancer.
