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Pilot funding — “The Future of Cancer…
Nine UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have been awarded pilot funding for innovative cancer research projects that aim to advance our…
New UF graduate certificate tackles AI & Data…
A new graduate certificate, AI & Data Science in Healthcare, is being offered by the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics in…
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya highlights national…
Bhattacharya praised UF’s OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network, which leverages more than 30 million deidentified medical records from Florida and…
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Upcoming Events
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College of Medicine Town Hall
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College of Medicine Gainesville and Jacksonville Town Hall
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CTSR Design Studios
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CTSR Design Studios
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CTSR Design Studios
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Big Data
Florida’s red tide events tied to illness
Analyzing eight years of data from Florida’s Gulf Coast, researchers found clear patterns linking red tide blooms to spikes in respiratory and stomach problems. The study is the first to move beyond association and provide evidence of causation between red tide exposure and illness.
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Conferences and Meetings
Research is meant to be shared. Visit our list of conferences to see where some of our researchers have been presenting their work.
HOBI Seminars
HOBI Seminars are presentations by visiting faculty, guest speakers, faculty candidates and graduate students. For recent and upcoming HOBI Grand Rounds speakers, please visit the HOBI Grand Rounds web page.
2025
- June 3 – Martin Wegman, MD, PhD, HOBI Guest Speaker presenting “Informing Regulatory Policy through Quasi-Experimental Research”
- March 12 – Pengyue Zheng, PhD, HOBI Guest Speaker presenting “Identifying drug-host interactions from real-world data.”
2023
- June 29 – Gina T. Eubanks, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Patient and Provider Characteristics Associated with Guideline-Concordant Metabolic Screening and Monitoring Among Adults Prescribed a Second-Generation Antipsychotic”
- May 24 – Xinsong Du, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Reproducible Computational Workflow for Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Data Processing”
2022
- May 26 – Tianyao Huo, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Examination of Disparities in Pediatric Lipid Screening and Management in Florida Medicaid”
- May 24 – Satish E. Viswanath, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, “Computational Imaging for Precision Medicine: A quest for generalizable AI models”
- April 12 – Rui Yin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, “Machine learning modeling to facilitate the precaution and diagnosis of diseases”
- March 31 – Richard Moffitt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, “Building the National COVID Cohort Collaborative: Investigating Acute and Long-term Outcomes of COVID-19”
- March 29 – Wei Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, “Computational Frameworks for Multi-omics Data Integration to Improve Disease Outcome Prediction”
- March 1 – Matthew Ruppert, HOBI graduate student master’s thesis defense, “Optimization of Inpatient Level of Care Through Multi-Task Learning”
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The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) shares faculty news and research, including press releases, upcoming events, announcements and media coverage. If you are a member of the media, please contact Jim Harper, Marketing Manager, at (352) 627-9070 or via email, harperfish@ufl.edu.
