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]

USF has one of the best public health schools in the nation, a fact that can be credited to Samuel P. Bell, III, Esq. While a member of the Florida House of Representatives, Bell helped push the legislation that created the USF College of Public Health in 1984, the state’s first and longest-standing public health college. [...] ... [Read]

Theresa Beckie, PhD, of the USF College of Nursing, compared the physical and psychosocial effects of a traditional cardiac rehabilitation to a program geared specifically for women. ORLANDO, FL. (Nov. 17, 2009) — Depressive symptoms improved among women with coronary heart disease who participated in a motivationally-enhanced cardiac rehabilitation program exclusively for women, according to [...] ... [Read]

L to R: Dr. Juan Sanchez Ramos, Dr. Ashok Raj and Dr. Chuanhai Cao are part of a multidisciplinary USF health team investigating how GCSF reverses Alzheimer's pathology. A recently published study led by University of South Florida neuroscientist Juan Sanchez-Ramos, PhD, MD, is a pivotal example of successful translational research originating at USF Health – [...] ... [Read]

TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 3, 2009) -- A depression drug created and patented by a team of University of South Florida researchers is at the center of Thursday’s major deal between global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC and Targacept, Inc., earning the university its potentially most lucrative patent royalties to date. The drug, TC-5214, is the invention of [...] ... [Read]

- CRT device use varies widely, large-scale study finds - Tampa, FL (Dec. 11, 2009) -- Most patients with heart failure likely to benefit from a pacemaker including the capacity for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) do not receive such an implantable device, reports a national study in the December 2009 issue of the American Heart Journal. [...] ... [Read]

Newschannel 8 anchor Gayle Sierens interviews Dr. Stephen Klasko, USF medical dean. The USF College of Medicine was featured on last night’s (Nov. 3rd) newscast of WFLA Newschannel 8 in a story titled “A New DNA for Doctors.” COM Dean Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, was interviewed by veteran news anchor Gayle Sierens for a segment on [...] ... [Read]

The USF arm of the NIH trials will be performed at Genesis, Tampa General Hospial and USF clinics. Tampa, FL (Oct. 26, 2009) -- The University of South Florida is participating in two federal studies to see whether the H1N1 vaccine can safely elicit a protective immune response in pregnant women, as well as in children [...] ... [Read]