Honors, Awards + Achievements
Carma Bylund, Ph.D., Stephanie Staras, Ph.D., Raymond Mailhot, M.D., and Erin Mobley, Ph.D.
Carma Bylund, Ph.D., and Stephanie Staras, Ph.D., received a five-year, $2.5-million Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Equity in Access Research Program grant to focus on the implementation of community oncology strategies to promote clinical trial enrollment.
Raymond Mailhot, M.D., and Erin Mobley, Ph.D., received a three-year, $741,832 grant to leverage a longitudinal database of electronic health records (EHR), administrative claims, and tumor registry data to examine differences in the receipt and quality of Hodgkin lymphoma treatment and survivorship care by insurance type.
Shuang Huang, Ph.D., Jordan Milner, M.D., Maryam Rahman M.D., and Bowen Yan, Ph.D.
Shuang Huang, Ph.D., Jordan Milner, M.D., Maryam Rahman M.D., and Bowen Yan, Ph.D., received grants from the Ocala Royal Dames for Cancer Research.
Daniel Indelicato, M.D.
Daniel Indelicato, M.D., was selected as a 2024 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Fellow.
Yi Guo, Ph.D., FAMIA
Yi Guo, Ph.D., FAMIA, was invited to serve as a Standing Member of the Healthcare and Health Disparities Study Section to help the National Institutes of Health select the most promising grant applicants and inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, M.D., Ph.D.
Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded an NCI administrative supplement to her U101 to develop PROTAC-based oncolytic approaches targeting EBV cancers.
Melike Caglayan, M.D., Ph.D.
Melike Caglayan, M.D., Ph.D., gave invited talks at the 54th Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) Meeting in Palm Springs, California, and the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology, in Florida.
Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACE
Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACE, was selected to give the endowed lecture at the American College of Epidemiology annual meeting held in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 8-11. She also received a $2.1 million T32 renewal from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D.
Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D., received a $345,000 grant from the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation, titled “B7-H3-CAR iNKT Therapy for High Risk Medulloblastoma.” He also received a $5,000 grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for the Pediatric Oncology Student Training (POST) Program.
Julie Maupin-Furlow, Ph.D.
Julie Maupin-Furlow, Ph.D., received a $4,989 University of Central Florida Space grant, titled “Post-translational regulation of 2Fe-2S ferredoxin and a flavin-based oxidoreductase in Haloferax volcanii.”
Boone Prentice, Ph.D.
Boone Prentice, Ph.D., received a $674,999 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, titled “Differentiation of Metabolic Isomers via Gas-phase Reactions.”
Kuang Gong, Ph.D.
Kuang Gong, Ph.D., received a $50,000 Canon Medical Research USA grant, titled “Artificial intelligence-based PET imaging.”
Angela Starkweather, Ph.D.
Angela Starkweather, Ph.D., received a $260,309 U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration grant for the UF Nurse Faculty loan program (year 2).
Blanka Sharma, Ph.D.
Blanka Sharma, Ph.D., received a $319,913 National Institutes of Health grant, titled “Identification and application of targeting peptides for systemic nanoparticle delivery to osteoarthritic joints.”
Carla Fisher, Ph.D.
Carla Fisher, Ph.D., received a $350,000 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society grant, titled “Adapting the Healthy Communication Practice Program for Spousal Blood Cancer Caregivers.”
Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Shenkman, Ph.D., was invited to participate as a panelist at a National Cancer Policy Forum workshop held July 29-30 in Washington, D.C., titled “Enabling 21st Century Applications for Cancer Surveillance through Enhanced Registries and Beyond.” This think-tank is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Sergei Zolotukhin, Ph.D.
Sergei Zolotukhin, Ph.D., received a $258,599 Solid Biosciences grant, titled “TO #14-Amnd 3- Directed Evolution of AAV Combinatorial Capsid Libraries to Derive Human Targeted Capsids.”