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Cancer screenings continue years after guidelines…
“Excessive screening opens the door for a lot of negative consequences,” said Jennifer LeLaurin, Ph.D., an assistant professor of health outcomes…

UF researcher links diabetes receptor gene to…
A new study led by a University of Florida College of Medicine researcher has found that certain genetic variations of a receptor targeted by popular…

Scholastic performance is a key concern for young…
Young patients with cancer need support when it comes to scholastic performance, which can be an empowering and motivating force during the…

Fall 2024
Building digital twin tools to investigate environmental threats to health
A new five-year, $3 million research project funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences aims to create the digital dictionary and playbook to help technology replicate the way humans experience disease.

upcoming and recent EVENTs
College Calendar
Upcoming Events
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Jul 14
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College of Medicine Town Hall
7:15am to 7:45am
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Sep 03
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Bioinformatics Unit Showcase
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Oct 11
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Oct 25
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Cancer Chomp 2025
8:00am to 11:00am
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Nov 05
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AI Symposium
10:00am to 3:00pm
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Featured Event
HOBI Grand Rounds
April 9
Please join us in-person for HOBI Grand Rounds seminar “AI, Augmented Intelligence, At Health System Scale” presented by Vincent Liu, MD, MS, Chief Data Officer for The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente. Lunch is provided first come, first served.

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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
- 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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