Welcome to the Department of Pathology,
Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
News and Events:
- Soap-sniffing technology encourages hand washing to reduce hospital-acquired infections
HyGreen hand hygiene system can help reduce infections and save money by reminding hospital workers to clean their hands to remove pathogens.
- Research suggests new cellular targets for HIV drug development
Researchers identify new cellular target for HIV drug development.
- UF biologists join world experts in experiment to explore flu origins
A UF evolutionary biology group joins other world experts in investigating the genetic origins of the current flu outbreak.
- UF researcher received national ‘Life Sciences’ award
Bryon Petersen, an associate professor of pathology, received the Chairmen's Distinguished Life Sciences Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
- UF researcher to probe evolution of HIV-related dementia
Marco Salemi, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the UF College of Medicine, has won a five-year, $3.5 million NIH grant to probe the genetic origins of HIV-associated dementia.
- UF diabetes researcher gets grant to fast-track discoveries
COM researcher Chang-Qing Xia, Ph.D., receives funding from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation allowing him to partner with industry to test a diabetes prevention therapy.
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