UF Health recognized 22 new endowed professors in the academic colleges, including two University of Florida College of Pharmacy faculty.

Drs. Guangrong Zheng, left, and Daohong Zhou, right, collaborate closely on anti-aging research. The scientific team of Daohong Zhou, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacodynamics, and Guangrong Zheng, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicinal…

Recent reports of babies born with opioid withdrawal symptoms after their mothers used kratom during pregnancy have generated much concern about the medicinal.

Jane Aldrich, Guenther Hochhaus, Charles Peloquin and Jay McLaughlin will serve three-year terms.

Although kratom is seen as a possible remedy for drug addiction, it’s typically associated with harm in western countries but not in those in Southeast Asia where its leaves have been used for hundreds of years. Now the National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded researchers at the University of…

Drs. Lance McMahon and Jenny Wilkerson author a story for The Conversation about the rising popularity and the scientific interest in cannabidiol.

The grant will bolster research on Mitragyna speciosia, or kratom, and its potential to treat opioid misuse and physical dependence.

Dr. Zhou joined team members from Unity Biotechnology Inc. in the opening bell ceremony on Oct. 9. He is a scientific co-founder of Unity.

A two-year, $400,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, or NIAAA, will allow University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers to study alcohols' effects on relationships.

Dr. Eric Krause will serve as director of the new Center for Integrative Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases.