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Neurosurgery team treats 5,000th patient with UF-invented radiosurgery system

Today, 32 years, eight patents and over 175 peer-reviewed publications later, the current faculty team of neurosurgeons Friedman and Kelly Foote, M.D.; radiation oncologists Robert Amdur, M.D., and Anamaria R Yeung, M.D.; medical physicists Bova, Didier Rajon, Ph.D., and Jonathan Li, Ph.D.; and Moore, the computer programmer, treated UF Radiosurgery’s 5,000th patient.

St. Baldrick’s Foundation Grant Recipients

Two University of Florida neuroscientists have received grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants. The goal of the foundation is to support physician-scientists looking for new and better cures for childhood cancer. Loic Deleyrolle, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the UF…

UF brain cancer researcher earns RO1 grant

Catherine Flores, Ph.D., has been awarded a Research Project Grant, or R01, from the National Institutes of Health to expand her research into a new use of stem cells to enhance the clinical effectiveness of adoptive T cell therapy against brain tumors.

Dr. Catherine Flores earns ALSF grant

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to finding cures for children with cancer, awarded Catherine Flores, PhD., an Innovation Grant.