The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions held its 36th Annual Research Day on February 9. The keynote speaker for the event was Marsha Davis, PhD, Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. Congratulations to Tinu Olarewaju,…
Congratulations to Miles Cameron, BS, BM, on receiving the UF Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Award. Cameron was among six recipients who received the award at the center’s Research Day on January 11. This award recognizes and supports outstanding predoctoral candidates who are conducting innovative cancer…
Dorian Rose, PT, PhD, Research Associate Professor and Brooks Clinical Research Scientist, shares new interest areas of research in a recent issue of the Brooks Beyond Magazine. “A new area of inquiry for our research team is to…
This week is Core Values Week, a university-wide initiative that focuses on six central values: 1) Excellence, 2) Discovery & Innovation, 3) Inclusion, 4) Freedom & Civility, and 6) Community. Dr. David Fuller, Professor, and Rehabilitation Science Program Director, speaks on Community and creating a…
Congratulations to the four Rehabilitation Science students who presented their research during the 2022 Neuromuscular Plasticity Nines Summer Seminar Series. This interdisciplinary seminar series, hosted by the BREATHE and Neuromuscular Plasticity T32 training programs, allows PhD students and post-doctoral fellows to…
The hyperbaric oxygen treatment resulted in an increase in the number of detectable neurons in the injured spinal cord David Fuller, PhD, professor and Rehabilitation Science Program Director, published a new rat-model study along with Sara Turner and Michael Sunshine, former postdoctoral researchers in Fuller’s lab,…
Rehabilitation Science PhD students, Raghuveer Chandrashekhar (Mentor: Dr. Hongwu Wang) and Carlyn Ellison (Mentors: Drs. Sherrilene Classen and Linda Struckmeyer), placed 1st and 2nd (respectively) at the 2022 Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) Robert A. Levitt Awards for…
Fiorella Guerrero Calle was selected to receive a $5,000 Research Abroad for Doctoral Students (RAD) grant to support her research in Peru. The RAD program provides funding for travel and related expenses for doctoral students traveling abroad to collect data or to access resources not available on campus…
In September, Sarah Skinner, MS, published her first first-author manuscript in Cells. The article, “Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Causes Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species- and Caspase 3-Dependent Atrophy of Single Adult Mouse Skeletal Muscle Fibers,” includes research that form part of her dissertation work. More recently, another first-author…
The Rehabilitation Science Doctoral Program would like to welcome our newest students, Raghuveer Chandrashekhar and Remya Kunnath Ravindranunni! Raghuveer Chandrashekhar Mentor: Hongwu Wang, PhD Raghuveer is a trained mechanical engineer, having earned a Bachelor of Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University and a Master of Science in Mechanical and…
