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Prof. Rebecca Butcher Named UF Research Foundation Professor

UFRF Professorships are awarded to faculty members who have established a strong record of research excellence while demonstrating the capacity to shape their fields in meaningful and lasting ways.

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Prof. Adam Veige wins Gator Angel Wing Award

Through the generous support of Dr. Nicholas Conti and Amy Fox Conti, this award supports bringing innovative research from the lab to the market. Read more here about Prof. Veige’s work on conductive polymers.

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Latest publication from MSREC

Check out the latest study from the Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center: Advantages of the sulfo-phospho-vanillin assay for lipidomics.

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Gut Feeling: UF Scientists Create Synthetic Mucus to Fight IBD

Prof. Brent Sumerlin and Microbiology Assoc. Prof. Luis Roesch team up to create synthetic mucus out of sheer-labile interaction polymers. Click to read the UF News article (photo courtesy of UF News).

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Loesgen Lab Awarded Grant from the Florida Cancer Innovation Fund

Prof. Sandra Loesgen won a grant from the Casey DeSantis Florida Cancer Innovation Fund. Her team will work on the preclinical development of mensacarcin for melanoma and pediatric brain cancers. Click to read the Whitney Lab News article.

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