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Study links joint pain supplement to accelerating dementia

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.

Florida officials unveil $4.2M in Alzheimer’s research grants

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.

Brain health pilot grants use AI to upgrade diagnoses and data

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…

Florida’s red tide events tied to illness

ā€œOur 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,ā€ said Yi Guo, Ph.D.

A champion for medical databases

Data science professional and certified cinephile Piyush Chaudhari has watched hundreds of films, but there’s one menacing movie with a special place in his head.