1. Stephen P. Sugrue, PhD Senior Associate Dean College of Medicine Research Affairs http://researchaffairs.med.ufl.edu/

3. Emerging Research Programs Vaccine and cell-based therapies Biomedical Informatics Mucosal immunology Gene therapy Health policy Infectious diseases Neurodegenerative diseases Neuro-muscular disease Trauma and inflammation

4. Research Centers & Institutes Clinical & Translational Science InstituteDavid Nelson, MD Institute on AgingMarco Pahor, MD McKnight Brain InstituteSteven DeKosky, MD UF Health Cancer CenterJonathan Licht, MD Diabetes InstituteMark Atkinson, PhD Emerging Pathogens InstituteJ. Glenn Morris, MD UF Genetics InstitutePatrick Concannon, PhD Institute for Child Health PolicyElizabeth Shenkman, PhD Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative DiseaseTodd Golde, MD, PhD Center for Movement Disorders & NeurorestorationMichael Okun, MD Center for NeuroGeneticsLaura Ranum, PhD Powell Gene Therapy CenterBarry Byrne, MD, PhD Center for Immunology & TransplantationMichael Clare-Salzler, MD Myology InstituteH. Lee Sweeney, PhD Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor TherapyDuane Mitchell, MD, PhD Child Health Research InstituteScott Rivkees, MD

5. Recent pre-eminent hires in the College of Medicine Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology Shuang Huang, PhD Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Matthew Merritt, PhD J. Andrew Berglund, PhD Department of Biostatistics Somnath Datta, PhD Susmita Datta, PhD Faming Liang, PhD Department of Epidemiology Mattia Prosperi, PhD Department of Health Policy & Outcomes Matthew Gurka, PhD William Hogan, MD Francoise Modave, PhD Jiang Bian, PhD Department of Medicine Josephine Clark-Curtiss, PhD Dorina Avram, PhD Jonathan Licht, MD Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology Herbert Schweizer, PhD Department of Neurosurgery David Tran, MD, PhD Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics H. Lee Sweeney, PhD Steven Munger, PhD Department of Physiology & Functional Genomics Karyn Esser, PhD Department of Psychiatry Carol Mathews, MD

6. Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research College of Medicine Rankings YearFundingRank 2009$61,653,11558 2010$62,058,94658 2011$72,157,62352 2012$83,890,25248 2013$84,898,63645 2014$88,002,89743 2015~$90,000,000* *Final 2015 award data not yet released