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HWCOM researcher Charles Dimitroff and his lab team show their support by wearing black on Melanoma Monday, part of Skin Cancer Awareness Month.
What do sugars and carbohydrates have to do with it?
May 27, 2021 at 10:00am
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. More than 5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year. There are several types of skin cancer. Melanoma is the third most common and the deadliest because it tends to metastasize, spread to other parts of the body.
Charles Dimitroff, executive associate dean for research at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) has studied melanomas for 15 years, most recently at the Translational Glycobiology Institute at FIU (TGIF), where he serves as director. The institute focuses on studying glycans sugars or carbohydrates found in the surface of cells and their impact on cancer progression.
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How a robot developed at UF could help first responders see through walls during rescues
A University of Florida research team is working on a robot dog that has the ability to enter an enclosed space, scan it, and provide humans with a visual of what’s inside, an application that could lessen dangerous situations for first responders.
The team of graduate and undergraduate students is led by Eric Jing Du, Ph.D., a professor of civil and coastal engineering at the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. Du said the inspiration behind the robotic dog was learning that firefighters often get trapped in dangerous places because of the unfamiliarity of the environments during rescues.
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In September of 2020, Dr. Robert Poppiti teaches one of our first in-person classes since the pandemic. I have hope. Reflections on medical education from the first wave of the pandemic
As part of an op-ed series, FIU News shares the expertise and diverse perspectives of members of the university community. In this piece, Dr. Suzanne Minor, assistant dean for faculty development at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, reflects on the challenges the pandemic posed for medical education and how medical students and faculty responded to those challenges.
This article first appeared in Reflective MedEd and is republished with permission.