A new five-year study of chronic kidney disease in children will draw on University of Florida informatics expertise to investigate how medication and blood pressure monitoring can improve outcomes.
Yi Guo, Ph.D., is a collaborator on new research that has found an association between taking glucosamine, a popular over-the-counter supplement used for joint pain, and a higher likelihood of progressing from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease.
McKnight Brain Institute: The project of Yonghui Wu, Ph.D., and Rui Yin, Ph.D., aims to develop innovative computational tools and analytical frameworks to better understand why some Alzheimer’s patients progress rapidly and others slowly, to improve future clinical trial design and interventions.
A new graduate certificate, AI & Data Science in Healthcare, is being offered by the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics in the University of Florida College of Medicine.
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.
