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Report: Vaccination rollout won’t prevent third wave of COVID-19

Tampa Bay is beginning to feel the effects of the third wave of coronavirus, and the vaccine won’t be able to stop it in time. The Pfizer vaccine started being administered to health professionals Dec. 14; however, mass distribution likely won’t begin until the spring. In the meantime, social distancing measures will be vital in stopping the spread of COVID-19 (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

December 16, 2020Health, Research

Jr Scientist program expands their virtual reach with help from ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏCollege of Marine Science students

Developed in 2014 by CMS students, the goal of the Jr Scientist program is to give middle and high school students the opportunity to volunteer at the festival, as a way to engage them in science.

December 11, 2020Research, Student Research

Three professors from the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Sarasota-Manatee campus – Faizan Ali, Thomas Becker and James Unnever – have been included in a database of the top 160,000 scientists worldwide, placing them among the elite in their fields across all disciplines.

December 10, 2020Research

Three ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏFaculty Members Elected New National Academy of Inventors Fellows

As prolific inventors, this year’s faculty honorees developed cutting-edge technology to fight diseases and improve lives (USFRI Newsroom).

December 8, 2020Global Research, Honors and Awards, Innovation

The ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ is launching a new COVID-19 training program for nurses (ABC News).

December 8, 2020Health

The Florida COVID-19 Hub is tweaked to harness data the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏresearch community and its partners at Tampa General Hospital can apply to their own research (83 Degrees).

December 8, 2020Health, Innovation, Research

An entire team of physician leaders from TGH and ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth Morsani College of Medicine will serve the Institute, from the inpatient clinical care to the outpatient clinics to teaching and research (83 Degrees).

December 8, 2020Health, Research

Report: Social distancing and face masks will help crush COVID-19 pandemic by late April

USF-developed computer model projects social mitigation measures will have a dramatic effect on how quickly Tampa Bay recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

December 4, 2020Health, Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏresearch team uncovers significant reason older adults are at increased risk of suffering a heart attack

A team of researchers in the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏDepartment of Surgery has made a key discovery as to why we become more susceptible to heart disease as we age. The human body, especially the heart, is dependent on the mitochondria, the part of the cell responsible for producing energy to maintain organ function. The protein, Sesn2, is located inside the mitochondria and plays a pivotal role in protecting the heart from stress (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

December 3, 2020Health, Research

ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏHealth and Tampa General Hospital have been selected as a site for a clinical trial testing the Novavax NVX-CoV2373 vaccine for COVID-19. They join over 100 research sites expecting to enroll more than 30,000 adult participants as part of the global search for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent COVID-19 (ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏNewsroom).

December 3, 2020Health, Research

Research paves the way to discovery and provides students unique experiential learning opportunities, strengthening creative and critical thinking. Today's incoming freshmen are tomorrow's leading artisans, educators, writers, inventors and trail blazers (Sarasota Scene Magazine, pp. 84-86).

December 1, 2020Research

Scientists discover new way to measure turbulence of large planets and exoplanets

Results show that the Jupiter’s atmosphere is four times more turbulent than Saturn’s (College of Marine Science).

November 30, 2020Innovation, Research