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The three-year professorship appointment acknowledges Duarte’s career achievements while recognizing his continued ascent as a leader in precision medicine research.

Li steps into a leadership role of a top-ranked medicinal chemistry department that has grown substantially over the past decade.

The third UF Drug Discovery Symposium brought a record-breaking 180 participants, including many of Florida’s major players in the drug discovery field, to Hotel Indigo in Gainesville on April 25–26. The symposium — hosted by the University of Florida College of Pharmacy’s Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development, or CNPD3 — featured a keynote...

Dean Johnson shares her reflection on the college's heroic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new defense against prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men in the United States, may come from a seaweed found off the coast of Florida. University of Florida pharmacy researchers have screened various seaweeds with cancer-preventive potential and identified one that shows particular promise. They isolated specific compounds in this common green alga,...

For selected compounds (by ourselves or in collaboration), we are devising synthetic methods to probe structure–activity relationships (SAR) and to obtain larger quantities of material for biological evaluation, including toxicity, pharmacokinetic and efficacy studies in animal models, which we will carry out in due course. Molecules of interest include largazoles and apratoxins, which we discovered and...

Pharmacy researchers at the University of Florida have isolated a new marine compound they believe may lead to improved drug therapies [...]

A UF College of Pharmacy researcher team led by Dr. Hendrik Luesch recently developed a novel molecule based on marine cyanobacteria, Apra S10, to target pancreatic cancer cells.

February 17, 2025 38th Annual Research Showcase Presenters Join the UF College of Pharmacy as we share innovative ideas, foster collaboration, and celebrate the exceptional research contributions of our students and trainees. Oral Competition Maureen Keller-Wood Junior Graduate Student Research TimePresenterTitleDepartment 2:00 PMJean Malave RiveraImpact of Social Determinants of Health…

UF scientists are searching for a natural regulator linked to schizophrenia.