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аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Health faculty among teams selected for new CREATE Awards that will help solve critical challenges

аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Health faculty fill the four interdisciplinary teams of аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢researchers who were recently awarded up to $1 million in seed funding through the Collaborative Research Excellence and Translational Efforts awards – a new initiative designed to catalyze new research and enhance USF’s impact. The USF-funded CREATE awards will support the launch of four multidisciplinary research projects in the areas of innovation, technology and aging, antimicrobial resistance, precision medicine, and AI-generated materials.

The projects include 67 faculty members from eight аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢colleges. Here are full teams for the four winning projects:

Center for Antimicrobial Resistance (CAMRA):

  • Lead: Lindsey Shaw, Professor and Associate Chair, Natural Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  • John Adams, Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Kami Kim, Professor, Infectious Diseases, Morsani College of Medicine
     

Center for Innovation, Technology, and Aging (CITA):

  • Lead: Yu Sun, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • William Haley, Distinguished Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Tammy Allen, Distinguished Professor, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Hariom Yadav, Associate Professor, Neurosurgery & Brain Repair, Morsani College of Medicine
  • William Kearns, Research Associate Professor, Retired Meritoriously, Child and Family Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Shalini Jain, CAEBR - Non-Tenure Asst Prof, Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Yili Ren, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Yangxin Huang, Professor, Public Health, College of Public Health
  • Shaun Canavan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Hongdao Meng, Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • John Licato, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Ram Bishnoi, Assoc Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Theresa Beckie, Professor, College of Nursing
  • Zhuo Lu, Assoc Professor, Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Maria Restrepo, Chair and Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Mingyang Li, Assoc Professor, Industrial and Management Systems, College of Engineering
  • Ning Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Tempestt Neal, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Claire Smith, Assistant Prof, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Redwan Alqasemi, Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Michelle Arnold, Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Sarasota Manatee Campus)
  • Bo Pei, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, College of Education
  • Zhao Han, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Dmitry Goldgof, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • John Templeton, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Yu Zhang, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, Assoc Professor of Instruction, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Lindsay Peterson, Assistant Research Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Victoria Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Julia Woodward, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Ganesh Halade, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Debra Dobbs, Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Lawrence Hall, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Theresa Chisolm, Vice Provost & Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Brian Bunnell, Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine
     

аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Precision Medicine Program:

  • Lead: Rays H.Y. Jiang, Associate Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Matthew Anderson, Associate Director, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Stephen Liggett, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Thomas McDonald, Professor, Director, аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢Heart Institute, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • XiaoMing Liu, Associate Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Hariom Yadav, Associate Professor, Director Microbiome Institute, Center for Aging, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Mark Margres, Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Xingmin Sun, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Min Zhang, Scientific Researcher, Interim Director, Genomics Core Facilities, Genomics Core, College of Public Health
  • Lawrence Hall, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sudeep Sarkar, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Deborah Cragun, Director аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢genetic counseling program, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Katherine Drabiak, Professor, PHIRE, College of Public Health
  • John Adams, Professor, Director of GHIDR (Global Health Infectious Disease Research Center) and аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÄÚÄ»ÐÅÏ¢genomics, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Billy Baker, Distinguished Univ Professor, Chemistry, College or Arts and Sciences
  • Christian Brechot, Professor, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Dominic D'Agostino, Associate Professor, Molecular pharmacology and physiology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Rita DeBate, Professor, Director, Center for Applied Lifestyle Medicine,
  • Kami Kim, Professor, Division Chief, Infectious Diseases, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Marilyn Stern, Professor, Child and family health, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Thomas Taylor-Clark, Professor, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Gopal Thinakaran, Professor & Interim Dir. CEABR, Byrd Institute, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Eva Uddin, Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Derek Wildman, Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Bi Zhao, Assistant Professor & Director Genomics Computational Core, Global Health, College of Public Health
     

Protein-Inspired Synthetic Macromolecular Materials:

  • Lead: David Simmons, Associate Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Jianfeng Cai, Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Vladimir Uversky, Professor, Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Lawrence Hall, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sudeep Sarkar, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sameer Varma, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Lawrence Stern, Assistant Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Rituparna Samanta, Assistant Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
     

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