Life Sciences

Masthead gallery: Florida Birding & Nature Festival

A photo gallery from the eighth annual Florida Birding & Nature Festival at the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center in Apollo Beach. 

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Masthead gallery: Seaside Seabird Sanctuary community cleanup

A photo gallery from the Seaside Seabird Sanctuary's community cleanup event following Hurricane Helene.

International firm Inpeco, a leader in the laboratory automation industry, has opened a regional headquarters for North America  at the USF Health CAMLS building in downtown Tampa.
International firm Inpeco selects USF CAMLS in downtown Tampa for regional headquarters

International firm and laboratory automation giant Inpeco opens a regional North American headquarters at USF CAMLS building in downtown Tampa.

Dr. Patrick Zhang, research director of phosphate beneficiation and mining at Florida Polytechnic University’s Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute (FIPR), shows a solution containing various rare earth elements in the institute’s lab.
Energy funds study that could lead to new industry for Florida

A Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute study can help position the state to become a U.S. supplier of the rare earth elements used to manufacture green energy and tech gadgets.

Stan Liberatore, founder of Disrupt the Bay, which promotes health tech innovation and raises funds for pediatric cancer research, food insecurity and other causes.
Disrupt the Bay raises money for pediatric cancer research

Disrupt the Bay raises funds for accelerating pediatric research into childhood cancers ATRT and neuroblastoma.

Healthcare professionals like Dr. Jason W. Wilson are working around the clock to help patients with COVID-19.
Dual enemies: Doctors fight COVID and disinformation

"Reality is that I am not seeing patients sick because of the vaccine. I am seeing patients sick with COVID. Most (90%) of those sick patients are unvaccinated.''  

Research being conducted at USF takes a look at how best to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to allergy sufferers.
NIH trial offers COVID vaccines to high-risk allergy patients

The University of South Florida in Tampa is recruiting patients with and without allergies to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as part of a clinical study.

A nurse administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Tampa.
USF Health joins national study on COVID-19 vaccine in young adults

Despite an ongoing COVID-19 surge hospitalizing more younger people, the 18-29 age group targeted by the Prevent COVID U trial has the lowest adult vaccination rates.

Entrepreneur Ben Sever is launching a new app aimed at improving medical communications.
New health app offers robust patient privacy protection

A Tampa company is set to launch a new app designed to deliver patient information more easily and securely.

Dr. Edwin Micheal, USF professor of epidemiology
USF professor will use AI to create predictive models for disease outbreaks, spread

Dr. Edwin Michael of USF Health will utilize Microsoft Azure to develop a software system that teaches itself how to recognize the individual characteristics of airborne, waterborne, and mosquito-borne diseases.

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