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Cancer Research Seeking new solutions…

A team of University of Florida Health researchers aims to reduce health inequities faced by people living with dementia by using artificial intelligence and electronic health records to develop a machine learning-based social risk management platform.

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.

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.

Carma Bylund, Ph.D., and Stephanie Staras, Ph.D., received a five-year, $2.5-million grant to focus on the implementation of community oncology strategies to promote clinical trial enrollment…

The very ambitious Miranda Reid, a student physician-scientist in the College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) at the University of Florida, recently won one of this year’s four awards from the National Cancer Institute in support of implementation science.

Ramzi Salloum received conference grant from the National Cancer Institute to support global tobacco control implementation science at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting.

A new interactive series launched in February by the University of Florida’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) to helps researchers obtain direct, confidential feedback about proposed research. Called a “Design Studio,” the one-hour meeting mimics a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study section to assess aspiring eggs of research before they hatch.

Researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine are working to improve the lives and patient care of children suffering with asthma in the United States. Asthma is a disease common among more than 6 million children nationwide. Jennifer Fishe, MD, and Jie Xu, PhD, are principal investigators for this study.

One of the project leaders for a new $1.5-million grant is Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D., from the College of Medicine’s Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics. Working with the UF Health Cancer Center, the project will provide North Florida with its first mobile mammography with leading-edge technology.