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This May we will launch an ambitious plan for research, uniting our nation’s best and brightest in a way not seen since President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of landing a man on the moon 50 years ago. I hope you will be able to join me and Co-Chairman Garen Staglin, along with [...]

Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors
The UF Provost’s Office hosts the “Excellence Awards for Assistant Professors” competition.  The annual award recognizes excellence in research among Assistant Professors. Each award is a one-time allocation of $5,000 in support of research that can be used to fund travel, equipment, books, graduate students, and other research-related expenses.
We would like to congratulate Dr. [...]

The four chairs of the University of Florida’s “neuromedicine” departments — neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery and psychiatry — will discuss the latest research and medical initiatives from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 17) in the MBI’s DeWeese Auditorium.
MBI Executive Director and Neurology Chairman Tetsuo Ashizawa, M.D., Neurosurgery Chairman William Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Neuroscience Chair [...]

‘Math is going to be the new microscope of the 21st century …’

A hand-held device that strengthens the muscles involved in swallowing can address a serious symptom of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new University of Florida study.
In what researchers believe is the largest randomized trial of a behavioral swallowing treatment in patients with Parkinson’s disease, scientists found that about one-third of the volunteers who used the [...]

“The prevailing clinical view is patients who are able to recover need to display early leg movement. The children in our studies displayed minimal or no movement, yet some were still able to make significant improvement.” — Dena Howland, an associate professor of neuroscience

A leading authority in neurology and translational research has been named the new executive director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida.
Tetsuo Ashizawa, M.D., chairman of the department of neurology at the UF College of Medicine, assumed leadership of the McKnight Brain Institute on Sept. 1, UF [...]

Production of new nerve cells in the human brain is linked to learning and memory, according to a University of Florida study now online in the journal Brain. The research is the first to show such a link in humans. The findings provide clues about processes involved in age- and health-related memory loss and reveal [...]

Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that contributes to a rare brain disease that causes patients to lose control of their coordination and movements.
Writing in PLoS Genetics, scientists with the University of Florida’s McKnight Brain Institute and the University of Texas Medical Branch describe how an elongation of a segment of RNA — the molecule [...]

McKnight Brain Research Foundation scientists and board members gather at the first McKnight brain institute ever established: the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida.