The smallest babies are the ones most at risk from RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. So it’s fitting that new USF faculty member Michael Teng, PhD, is researching ways to fight RSV using the tiny weapons of nanotechnology.      “It’s a real problem for babies,” Dr. Teng said. “We’ve known about it for 50 years, [...] ... [Read]

The USF College of Medicine Office of International Affairs hosted 18 hospital administrators from Gansu, China, for its inaugural Hospital Administrator Training Program Jan. 19 to Feb. 5. The trainees included vice presidents, department chiefs and division directors from hospitals affiliated with Lanzhou University and the Gansu Provincial Health Department in northwestern China. Lanzhou University [...] ... [Read]

International exchange exposes students to American medicine Dr. John Sinnott oversees as one of the students practices an ear exam. Seven medical students from Yeungnam University College of Medicine in Daegu, South Korea, learned how American medical students prepare for their profession when they participated in the Stephen Klasko Clinical Observership Program Jan. 4 to 19. [...] ... [Read]

This year’s USF Health Research Day began with a thank you as the student oral presentation session was officially renamed the Annual Joseph Krzanowski, PhD, USF Health Invited Oral Presentations Session. The gesture was meant to honor Dr. Joseph Krzanowski, who is an emeritus professor and former associate dean for the USF College of Medicine, and [...] ... [Read]

Feb. 23, 2010 -- USF was among 13 institutions funded when The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) announced $2.8 million in awards earlier this month for new projects to speed the discovery of biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease. Chuanchai Cao, PhD, assistant professor of molecular pharmacology and physiology, received a $225,500 grant from [...] ... [Read]

Simulation fine-tunes USF athletic training students' response to on-field emergencies With the increased national focus on concussion and spinal injuries in football, USF has stepped up proactive measures to insure that those who take care of the athletes practice responding to these on-field emergencies.  Emergency care has always been included as part of the athletic training curriculum at [...] ... [Read]

     When people are first diagnosed with diabetes, they may get depressed.  Or anxious.  Or angry.      New USF faculty member Laura Williams, PhD, knows this better than most.      Dr. Laura Williams, USF clinical psychologist and assistant professor of pediatrics, hands out beads at the Gasparilla Children's Parade.      As a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating [...] ... [Read]

A new laboratory is changing the climate of research at the USF College of Nursing, attracting bright students and accomplished veteran faculty from around the world. The Biobehavioral Laboratory, which opened in the summer of 2009, is a comprehensive wet laboratory research facility that enables College researchers to launch and support biological data analysis for multiple [...] ... [Read]

For two decades, researchers representing the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health have displayed their work along the corridors of USF Health for fellow researchers and mentors to review and for faculty judges to critique. On Feb. 19, nearly 200 faculty, students, and even staff, will once again set up their posters in the pre-dawn [...] ... [Read]

          When we are strong, they march us to victory. We put our best one forward or get one in the door. We are sure-footed.       They tell the world our moods: energized in Air Nike, sexy in Manolos, relaxed in flip-flops.       And yet our feet are somehow vulnerable. When we are weak, we are [...] ... [Read]

     Some 25,000 women are diagnosed each year with ovarian cancer.      Most of them don’t find out about it until it’s too late.      “Nearly 15,000 of them are dead within five years,’’ said Dr. Santo Nicosia, professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology.      Dr. Nicosia and Dr. Patricia Kruk, professor of pathology [...] ... [Read]

Research ranges from novel nanotechnology for cancer detection and therapy to ethics of clinical trials Tampa, FL (Dec. 21, 2009) -- Four USF Health researchers received more than $3.1 million in Florida Department of Health grants to support research for tobacco-related diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular disease. The awards, beginning Jan. 1, 2010, are from the [...] ... [Read]

Right click to download B-roll for Cell Phone Study/Arendash Lab, TRT- 1:46 The USF-led study in mice indicates long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves emitted by cell phones may even boost normal memory Tampa, FL (Jan. 6, 2010) – The millions of people who spend hours every day on a cell phone, may have a new [...] ... [Read]

Studies implicate damage inflicted by amyloid protein as shared disease mechanism Tampa, FL (Jan. 15, 2010) -- Nearly 20 years ago Huntington Potter kicked up a storm of controversy with the idea that Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s were the same disease. Now the evidence is in: He was right. And that’s not all. Down [...] ... [Read]

In the Jan. 15 issue of the leading journal Science, USF College of Public Health malaria expert Wilbur Milhous, PhD, comments on a promising new development to fast-track production of the natural anti-malarial compound artemisinin. Dr. Milhous co-authors the perspectives article “The Botanical Solution for Malaria” with colleague Peter Weina of the Walter Reed Army [...] ... [Read]

Grinning with anticipation, 8-year-old Ty’rique Brock waited patiently to hear if he was one of the lucky few to win a prize at the grand finale celebration of the Scorecard program, held Nov. 7 at Jackson Heights Recreation Center in East Tampa. Ty’rique has spent the past couple of months filling up his own scorecard with [...] ... [Read]