The College of Medicine’s annual Research Day celebration is just around the corner, and the deadline for submissions to the poster presentation session is quickly approaching. Presentations are open to College of Medicine faculty and their collaborators. Those who are interested in presenting their research during the event can submit abstracts online now. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Jan. 21. 

College of Medicine Research Day 2022 will take place Feb. 15, from 4-8:30 p.m. in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. The event typically attracts more than 1,100 students, along with their friends and family, faculty, researchers and medical professionals. Light refreshments will be served.

Following the completion of the College of Medicine’s comprehensive strategic planning process, project teams are forming with the goal of launching two to three initiatives under each of the seven pillars that will begin to move us toward our vision under that pillar.

Project champions will lead each initiative with the support of a project team and will be guided by project management processes. Accountability teams under each of the strategic plan’s seven pillars will serve as a resource to project teams.

Desmond Schatz, M.D., professor and interim chair of the department of pediatrics and pediatric medical director of the UF Diabetes Institute, received the prestigious 2021 JDRF George Eisenbarth Award for Type 1 Diabetes Prevention during the organization's meeting in December.

The award is presented annually to a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to and research advances in the prevention of Type 1 diabetes.