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Graduate student Campbell Eckhardt has been selected for a 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program award.

The college has five academic departments that have a unique research focus, are highly successful in attracting extramural research support, and are an integral part of the University of Florida Academic Health Center. A sixth department, pharmacy education and practice, is dedicated to enhancing clinical education and practice. Faculty in the departments lead the training and education of...

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.

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.