“For the first time in many of these patients’ lives, they have a more neutral feeling toward food,” Michelle Cardel, associate director for the Center for Integrative Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Florida who heads research at Weight Watchers, observed. GLP-1-based drugs “reduce the chatter in their…
Drs. El Saafien and Morris awarded American Heart Association Fellowships…
UF Health recognized 33 endowed professors and chairs across the six academic colleges at a special Celebrating Distinction ceremony on Oct. 13. The event included four newly endowed professors from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy who were installed in 2022. Dr. Eric Krause, CICMD director, was endowed with the Debbie DeSantis Excellence Professorship.
Since 2009, the National Postdoctoral Association has promoted National Postdoc Appreciation Week to recognize the significant contributions that postdoctoral scholars make to U.S. research and discovery. On this occasion, The CICMD thanks all our Postdoctoral members for their valuable contributions to the advancement of Science. http://postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/programs/national-postdoc-appreciation-week/…
The CICMD is pleased to announce that the Pilot Grant Proposal titled: Protease induced diabetic kidney injury in COVID19 patients has been selected for funding in the amount of $10,000. The development of acute kidney injury (AKI) with high-grade proteinuria in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients has been well documented. Dr. Alli and others…
Hannah Costello and other members of the CICMD in the Gumz lab recently published an extensive review on “Circadian Clocks of the Kidney: Function, Mechanism, and Regulation” in Physiological Reviews, which summarizes what is currently known in the field, areas in need of extensive research, and highlighting how time-of-day is…
The event was well-attended and collegial. Food and drinks were served during the poster session while trainees and faculty socialized learning about each other’s research. Winners of the Oral competition were: Caitlin BaumerHannah CostelloTianyao Huo Montserrat Carrera…
Arashdeep Singh (Mentor Guillaume De Lartigue,Ph.D.) Congratulations to CICMD postdoc trainee Dr. Arashdeep Singh who was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Steven M. Horvath Professional Opportunity Award by the American Physiological Society (APS) Central Nervous System Section. The Horvath Award is given to the top-ranked Research…
Congratulations to the CICMD Travel Award Winners. Several CICMD trainees won travel awards to help them offset travel expenses to conferences. Many have already traveled to meetings, Experimental Biology in Philadelphia, and the Keystone Symposia on the Gut-Brain axis in Banff – Canada. EB 2022 Caitlin…
In the study, El Saafien develops a novel approach that selectively targets mechano-sensory afferents that innervating the aortic arch.
