Gov. Rick Scott approved $6.9 million in state funding Tuesday to support the initial design of the new USF Health Heart Institute. The funding will allow USF Health to move ahead as one of the nation’s leaders in cardiovascular care, with a special focus on genomics-based personalized medicine

A research team led by the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences has found that a fragment of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) — known as sAPP-α and associated with Alzheimer’s disease — appears to regulate its own production. The finding may lead to ways to prevent or treat Alzheimer’s disease by controlling the regulation of APP.

Immediate skull reconstruction following trauma that penetrates or creates an indentation in the skull can aggravate brain damage inflicted by the initial injury, a study by a University of South Florida research team reports. Using a rat model for moderate and severe traumatic brain injury, the researchers also showed that a delay of just two days in the surgical repair of skull defects resulted in significantly less brain swelling and damage.

A USF Marine Science professor shares information on the expedition with USF students and the world via Skype.
It is not every day that the view from class is a deep blue Caribbean sea and misty volcanic mountains in the distance. Nor does your professor normally have to shout over the hum of engines and the whooshing of a brisk sea breeze, the 470-foot vessel beneath her feet swaying just enough to induce the slightest feeling of sea sickness

Nancy Romero-Daza and David Himmelgreen have been awarded a three-year Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant from the National Science Foundation, for a total of $418,611. The grant will support the "Globalization and Community Health: Combining Social Science and Engineering" field school in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

The University of South Florida eases the learning curve for EE students using Agilent test solutions in a new wireless communications lab.

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the nonprofit organization managing research onboard the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, today named renowned surgeon and researcher Timothy J. Yeatman, M.D., as CASIS Interim Chief Scientist. Additionally, Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist, aerospace consultant, and former NASA executive, has been appointed CASIS Scientific Advisor. Doctors Yeatman and Stern will lead research initiatives for the organization.

Science is fascinating, and all of us are immersed in a swirl of communication about our work. Whether in a conversation to someone in your lab; in a manuscript, grant application, or presentation at scientific meeting; or even with friends and family, you are conveying information about science.

There are a lot of urban myths out there about NIH grant review. Here is a common one—your chance of getting funded is lower if your application goes to the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) for review rather than to another NIH institute or center (IC). Well, I have the data and took a look.

The new rankings by the National Science Foundation places USF in the top 50 among all U.S. universities.The new ranking by the National Science Foundation places USF in the elite class of research universities, joining Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Yale and Harvard within the top rankings nationwide. USF is second in Florida only to the University of Florida.

The University of South Florida is growing its research capacity at a torrid pace. From 2000 to 2007, no public institution received federal funding at a higher rate -- a staggering 213 percent increase, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac.

University of South Florida and community leaders, joined by education, industry and simulation partners from around the world and national specialty society officials, gathered this morning for the grand opening of the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in downtown Tampa. The $38-million, 90,000 square foot building brings an unprecedented level of technical and teamwork training, simulation and competence assessment under one roof, as well as significant research and device innovation capability.

First Lady Michelle Obama recognized some life-changing research being conducted at the University of South Florida College of Nursing during a speech last week at a national summit meeting addressing health care for veterans.

Chemistry professor John Dixson and a group of students are trying to determine the active ingredient in four sages native to western South Dakota that have been found to have anti-malarial properties. Dixson recruited Dennis Kyle, a University of South Florida professor who specializes in malaria research, to help the Black Hills State team grow the malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

Impeller magazine names USF Patel Center’s Vairavamoorthy to an elite list of people devoted to solving water issues. Jimmy Carter. Kofi Anan. Kala Vairavamoorthy. The three share in common the new distinction of being named to Impeller magazine’s list of 25 global water heroes.

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