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Dr. Jay McLaughlin is one of 35 faculty members named UF’s most productive and promising.

hendrik luesch Discovering a new wave of medicine The ocean is calling and beneath its surface dwells an unseen power to heal. Dr. Hendrik Luesch explores the world’s oceans in search of natural compounds that treat cancer and other deadly diseases. In these uncharted waters, lies new chemistry, new biology…

The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology and the UF College of Pharmacy are seeking a new joint faculty member, to be based in Jupiter, facilitating collaboration between campuses.

Jürgen Bulitta, Ph.D., is among a team of UF researchers exploring how drug combinations can be tuned to defeat resistant bacteria.

More than 180 scientists attended The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute Chemical Biology & 5th UF Drug Discovery Symposium in Jupiter, Florida.

Organic farmers can use the natural chemicals to ward off weeds and conventional farmers can use them on weeds that grow resistant to traditional, synthetic herbicides.

With the funding from the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, Ding aims to access and expand chemical diversity of microbes through the use of new, innovative strategies.

The awards come from various federal institutions, but all 10 have at least one grant from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH.

The researchers found a more efficient way to harvest the UV-absorbing amino acid known as shinorine, which marine organisms like cyanobacteria and macroalgae produce.

UF Health honored 33 endowed professors and chairs across the six academic colleges at a special Celebrating Distinction ceremony on Oct. 13.