Want to find open studies?

UF StudyConnect is a new website where people can search for clinical research studies that are enrolling participants. The site catalogues and illuminates the incredible array of opportunities to participate in UF’s health-related research. Created, maintained and promoted by the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute in collaboration with the four UF IRBs, UF&Shands and research teams across UF, the site lists hundreds of open studies in both Gainesville and Jacksonville. New studies are added continuously. Check it out at studyconnect.ctsi.ufl.edu.

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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.

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