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Endowed professorships are among the highest honors a college can bestow on a faculty member and are reserved for scholars of national and international acclaim.

A mutual research interest brings together College of Pharmacy alumna and supporter Debbie DeSantis and Dr. Hendrik Luesch in search of cyanobacteria in the Florida Keys

Tom Burris, chair of the UF College of Pharmacy department of pharmacodynamics, received the inaugural UF Innovate Innovation Fund Award for his work developing exercise mimetics.

Burris was honored for his development of an exercise mimetic derived from a natural product source.

Known as the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, the grant will fund several of Huigens’ research projects, including efforts to develop compounds that will eliminate bacterial biofilm-associated infections.

Dr. Ratnayake was recognized for her leadership in the renovation of a new $10 million, 14,500-square-foot laboratory designed to advance UF’s integrated drug discovery initiatives.

Dr. Grundmann is one of only two faculty members across the university to be selected for the professorship in the UF Honors Program this year.

Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D., a professor and chair of medicinal chemistry and the Debbie and Sylvia DeSantis Chair in Natural Products Drug Discovery and Development, received the Golden Medal Award for his presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Herbal and Traditional Medicine.

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

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