News and Events

  • Stephen Marsh wins Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship
    April 3, 2012

    Congratulations to Stephen Marsh, a researcher in Dr. Swarts lab, for winning the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship for the Gordon Research Conference on Radiation Chemistry for the abstract “Ex Vivo [...]

  • On the Same Page
    March 9, 2012

    Nearly 1.6 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer last year, and nearly 600,000 died from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. Experts estimate that as many as 90 [...]

  • Couple Funds Lectureship Program In Radiation Oncology
    March 2, 2012

    When radiation oncologist Doug Fein, M.D., was a resident at UF, he enjoyed meeting with world-renowned guest lecturers who visited the university. Now, he and his wife, Debbie Fein, M.D., [...]

  • Targeting tumors may help stop spread of breast, other cancers
    February 7, 2012

    Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a [...]

  • Odedina to Speak at International Cancer Conference
    February 7, 2012

    Folakemi T. Odedina, Ph.D., a professor of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy in the College of Pharmacy, and director of community outreach and minority affairs for the Prostate Disease Center, has [...]

  • Ranked Among Top 35
    January 9, 2012

    Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL is ranked among top 35 in US News & World Report Ranking Best Hospitals…

  • UFSCC Small Cell Lung Cancer Research Grant Awardees
    November 18, 2011

    Small Cell Lung Cancer is an aggressive subtype of lung cancer that exhibits a unique clinical, pathological, and biological phenotype. This funding opportunity, made available through a generous philanthropic donation [...]

  • UF Lung Cancer Center unites experts for patient-focused care
    November 11, 2011

    Gary Love had been retired two years when he first noticed the strange, draining feeling in his head. He went to the doctor, thinking it was a sinus infection. It [...]

  • Nancy P. Mendenhall, M.D., named to James E. Lockwood Professorship
    November 9, 2011

    Nancy P. Mendenhall, M.D., medical director of the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute and associate chair of the UF department of radiation oncology, is the recipient of a James E. Lockwood [...]

  • UF & Shands Debut New Cancer-Killing Technology
    October 26, 2011

    With the snip of scissors during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 12 at the UF Cancer & Genetics Research Complex, a new era in the treatment of breast cancer in Florida [...]