Posted in

Grants

Fellows in pediatric cancer to benefit from communications training

A successful communication skills training program about clinical trials is expanding to cover pediatric cancer. The workshop trains medical oncology fellows to communicate clearly with patients and their families about the benefits of enrolling in a clinical trial.

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…

Guidance for the caregivers of blood cancer patients

Researchers are expanding a successful program that teaches spouses and other caregivers how to support a patient living with a blood cancer, such as leukemia. Newly filmed videos will feature the expertise of caregiving expert, Allison J. Applebaum, PhD, a professor and director of the Center for Caregiving at the…

UF researchers to enhance rural healthcare using mobile AI

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,…

Mkuu wins support to build expertise in cervical cancer interventions

A prestigious award of more than $850,000 from the National Cancer Institute will support Rahma Mkuu, PhD, as she builds her expertise in implementation science over the next five years while adressing cervical cancer screening disparities among women living with chronic conditions. Mkuu is an assistant professor and chronic disease researcher in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics within the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.