Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of acute lung injury in dogs. Severe cases require hospitalization with oxygen supplementation in addition to other therapies, which generally cost $2,000-4,000. Despite advances in veterinary medicine, treatment for pneumonia is still largely supportive, including broad-spectrum antibiotics, supplemental oxygen, and fluids as…
Emma Schachner and her team had a paper on the cover of the Journal of Anatomy (led by a former PhD student). Here is the link: The work was funded by the Association of Avian Veterinarians and is on the respiratory anatomy of the African Grey Parrot, a very common…
Emma Schachner, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences at the University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine, where she teaches anatomy to veterinary students. Her research focuses on the evolution of structural and functional diversity in the vertebrate respiratory system. Emma is honored to receive…
UF Health researchers have used a promising approach by integrating CRISPR-cas9-based drug screening with patients’ clinical outcome to identify genes and pathways that predict how patients will respond to the standard firstline chemotherapy treatment regimen used to treat patients with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. Read Article Here…
Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Baú has recently been awarded the travel award at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago on Oct 5th – 9th, 2024. Dr. Leah Reznikov severed as his mentor. He also received a Gator NeuroScholar fellowship from the McKnight Brian Institute. Dr. Trevizan-Baú is also a postdoc at…
Drs. Pedro Trevizan-Baú, John A Hayes , Donald C Bolser , Leah R Reznikov has had the research recently published. Amygdalar involvement in respiratory dysfunction.Trevizan-Baú P, Hayes JA, Bolser DC, Reznikov LR.Front Physiol. 2024 Aug 28;15:1424889. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2024.1424889. eCollection 2024.PMID: 39263625 Free PMC article. Review. The article summarizes roles for…
Recently Mallory Llewellyn a Graduate Assistant here, at the University of Florida collaborated with Jonh Bowden and Tracie Baker both working for the Center for Enviromental and Human Toxicology, and other scientist on her paper entitled “Identification and quantification of novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in a Great…
Dr. Helena Zommer recently attended and presented at 7th TERMIS -WC in Seattle Washington. This year’s conference theme was “Coming Together to Design Better Healthcare for All.” Dr. Zommer chaired two sessions while at the conference. One was Advances in Skin Tissue Engineering which included talks on the latest research…
Dr. Helen Zomer recently attended the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (OAIC) annual meeting that took place on April 25-26, 2024, in Arlington, Virgina. She presented her poster on Healing Skin Wounds in Older Adults. The poster was on research that tackles chronic skin wounds, a common issue…
Recently Phi Zeta 2024 occurred. Many of our students and faculty won awards. The 2nd place award for Graduate student goes to Gabbie Robilotto who is mentored by Dr. Aaron Mickel on her research on Investigating Angiotensin Type 1 Receptor in Experimental Autoimmune Cystitis. The 3rd place for Postdoc…
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