Many minds, one mission

What role does diversity play in improving education and health care? A pretty big one, and the issue goes far beyond black and white. This month, The POST explains what UF leaders are doing to not only improve diversity, but also to use it as a step toward greatness.

 

February 2012

A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers, William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D. and Alfred S. Lewin, Ph.D., has the potential to reverse a common form of blindness that strikes young children. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a working copy that supplies a protein needed for light-sensitive cells in the eye to function. The findings are published Monday, Jan. 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online. Several complex and costly steps remain before the gene therapy technique can be used in humans, but once at that stage, it could have great potential to change lives.

Better vision in sight

A new gene therapy method developed by UF researchers has the potential to reverse a common form of blindness.

Leslie Gonzalez Rothi/Photo by Maria Belen Farias

A new chapter

Leslie Gonzalez Rothi recently stepped down as director of the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center she helped found.

Jacob Silvernan, 11, received a kidney transplant at Shands at UF in 2009./Photo by Maria Belen Farias

A little miracle

An E. Coli infection almost killed Jacob Silverman when he was in kindergarten. A kidney transplant at Shands at UF changed his life.

The College of Nursing Fall Pinning Ceremony/Photo by Maria Belen Farias

Pin of honor

The College of Nursing Pinning Ceremony follows a rich tradition.