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Crisis in Health Care
Despite the moments of quiet satisfaction that bring joy to those who answered the call to care for others, it is becoming harder to fill nursing vacancies. Even with nearly 4 million nurses nationwide — the largest segment of health care workers — the United States is experiencing a nursing shortage that is expected to expand over the next 10 years. READ MORE
UF and FSU receive $29 million to speed research discoveries
UF and FSU will expand their research partnership with the five-year award, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program. Led by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, the nationwide network of more than 50 CTSA hubs develop, demonstrate and disseminate advances in translational science, a field devoted to turning research discoveries into new approaches that improve health. READ MORE
Printing Cancer’s End
The ability to study tumors in 3D is a key to cancer engineering but required a new tool. That tool emerged from the lab of engineering researcher Thomas Angelini, Ph.D., who had been working on a method to create 3D structures out of cells when he began using a granular microgel, which has properties of both solids and liquids. READ MORE
Unpacking Inflammation
Inflammation plays a role in almost every disease, as well as the aging process, but quantifying various forms of inflammation and identifying their molecular effects in human disease is challenging.
Learning more about inflammation could lead to better health outcomes for a host of ailments, say Lyle Moldawer, Ph.D., and Michael Clare-Salzler, M.D., who are the leaders of the UF Health initiative called Creating the Healthiest Generation. READ MORE
Fourth Annual Lemon Ball Helps Fund Childhood Cancer Research
The fourth annual Lemon Ball took place on Oct. 4 at the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention. All of the proceeds raised at the event help fund the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation grant at UF Health’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy program. Here in North Central Florida at the University of Florida Catherine Flores, Ph.D., is working on research to help brain cancer. READ MORE
Announcements
Seeking patient stories for cancer-related marketing
The Cancer Center marketing manager, Jessica Barton, is looking for physicians and other clinicians to identify potential patients whose stories we can share on social media and other platforms.
Criteria:
- Multi-D care
- Not a clinical trial participant
- Good outcome, at least six months out of treatment
Please email jessbarton@ufl.edu if you have a candidate for consideration. Please do not include detailed patient info, just an outline of their case.
Free Professional Portrait
UF Health Creative Services offers open studio hours at Communicore C2-20 every month. Simply stop by during one of the time slots listed on the bottom of their webpage — there’s no need to sign up beforehand, and it only takes five minutes! Here are some of the upcoming sessions:
11/05 | 9-10 a.m.
11/07 | 3-4 p.m.
11/18 | 3-4 p.m.
11/20 | 9-10 a.m.