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Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta is an internationally recognized space medicine expert who leads our research on the health impacts of space travel with an emphasis on addressing these issues as more people go into space.
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Dr. Alicja Copik is developing technologies that “beef up” the body’s Natural Killer cells. Dr. Copik uses nanoparticles and genetic engineering to make the body’s first line of defense into better-armed cancer killers.
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Dr. Debopam Chakrabarti focuses his research on malaria, the world’s deadliest mosquito-borne illness. Dr. Chakrabarti is investigating using cancer drugs and identifying natural product-derived antimalarials to find new ways to treat malaria.
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Twenty-five years after America`s first astronauts began their journey into space, they launched the Astronaut Scholarship to help ensure the U.S. would be the global STEM leader for the next space races - And today three UCF students are recipients of this prestigious scholarship.
This year, the committee chose 74 juniors and seniors from 51 universities, and UCF is one of only three universities with a trio of winners — Keanu Brayman, Kyle Coutray and Sun Latt. Two of the scholarship awardees are students in the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences.
Learn more about our Astronaut Scholars at: https://www.ucf.edu/news/meet-ucfs-2025-astronaut-scholars/
The College of Medicine congratulates and thanks Dr. Donald Diebel Sr., who was recently honored with UCF’s John C. and Martha Hitt Honorary Alumni Award for his dedication that has “improved countless lives and inspired students and colleagues to embrace medicine as both a science and a calling.”
Dr. Diebel and his son, Don Jr., practiced together as Orlando OB-GYNs before the son’s death in 2002 when he stopped to assist car accident victims on Florida’s Turnpike. In his memory, the family created The Diebel Legacy Fund at the Central Florida Foundation to support and encourage good Samaritanism.
The fund supports the free KNIGHTS (Keeping Neighbors in Good Health Through Service) Clinic at Grace Medical Home, where UCF medical students work with community physicians to care for patients in need.
Learn more about Dr. Diebel and the Knights Clinic at the link in our bio. 🔗
These medical students are making a house call. 🏠
This month, a group of UCF medical students took community care beyond the doctor`s office and joined @westorangehabitat to help build four new houses in our Central Florida community.
UCF space medicine initiatives are taking off! 🚀
As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, the UCF College of Medicine is charting the new frontier in healthcare, exploring how factors like microgravity, radiation and isolation impact the human body. That knowledge can then be used to drive innovation into diagnostics, treatment and disease prevention for patients on earth.
As part of that effort, two internationally known aerospace medicine experts recently joined the medical school’s faculty as part of a new UCF center that will lead research and technology development for improving health in extreme environments such as space.
Dr. William (Ed) Powers joins UCF after serving as director of flight medicine for Axiom Space and former chief of NASA’s Medical Operations Branch, where he was the primary medical support physician for six shuttle missions and four Soyuz missions launched from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.
Dr. Jennifer Fogarty was chief scientist for NASA’s Human Research Program, where she led efforts to reduce the health risks of space travelers, including those traveling to Mars.
Learn more about the new faculty joining UCF and how aerospace medicine can help us here on Earth at the link in our bio. 🔗
The UCF College of Medicine faculty, staff and students are proudly wearing pink today in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month - and in support of everyone whose lives have been affected by breast cancer. 💗
It`s starting to feel like fall in Lake Nona! 🍂
This year, the Academic Health Sciences Center celebrated with our biggest Fall Festival yet welcoming the faculty, staff and students from our new neighbors, the UCF College of Nursing!
Dr. Shazia Beg, Medical Director of Rheumatology at UCF Health and Program Director of the UCF/VA/HCA Rheumatology Fellowship Program, organized and led an expert panel presentation to a group of patients with scleroderma - a chronic connective tissue disease generally classified as an autoimmune disease.
The panel featured distinguished speakers:
Dr. Marilyn Mosquera, UCF Rheumatology faculty member specializing in Lifestyle Medicine
Dr. James Tarver, Cardiologist and Pulmonary Hypertension expert at AdventHealth Orlando
Dr. Suresh Manickavel, Transplant Pulmonologist at AdventHealth Orlando
Together, these physicians offered insights into the disease’s hallmark symptoms, current screening approaches, and comprehensive management strategies. The event was held in collaboration with the National Scleroderma Foundation and the Association of Women in Rheumatology.
Scleroderma affects about 300,000 people in the United States with it being 4 times more common in women than in men. The discussion focused on this complex autoimmune condition, which can impact nearly every organ system in the body.
Meet the first-year UCF medical student who has been named a 2025 STAT News Wunderkind, a national honor that recognizes young “scientific superstars” in biomedicine! ✨
Alejandro De Los Angeles joined the medical school this fall after earning his Ph.D. at Oxford University, completing an M.P.H in Epidemiology at Harvard University, and conducting postdoctoral research at Harvard, MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and hopes to discover how stem cells can treat psychiatric conditions.
De Los Angeles was one of only 29 Wunderkinds STAT News chose through what it called a "hunt for the most impressive doctors and researchers on the cusp of launching their careers, but not yet fully independent."
Learn more about De Los Angeles at the link in our bio 🔗
