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UF team joins national study of brain development in infants, children

The University of Florida is one of a network of institutions selected to implement the National Institutes of Health’s HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study or HBCD, a longitudinal, multidisciplinary effort to study brain development and behavioral health in young children, the NIH announced Thursday.

Graduate spotlight

In August, Guanming Chen graduated with her Ph.D. in medical sciences with a concentration in health outcomes.

HOBI grad student discusses the value of summer internships in industry

Boya Lin, a Ph.D. student at HOBI, is working as an intern this summer with the Experiential Internship Program at AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Chicago. During the internship, Lin will work remotely with AbbVie’s Department of Health Economics and Outcome Research.

Gurka to Serve on NIH Study Section

Matthew Gurka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) at UF and associate director of UF’s Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP), was selected to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and Diabetes (KNOD) Study…