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In this article, Dr. Gumz describes a very personal journey through the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the women in her family - her mom, her sister, and herself.

Dr. Michelle Gumz, 2004 alumni of Dr. Brian Cain's lab, is currently a tenure track Assistant Professor of Medicine at UF, in the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation. Dr. Gumz has a joint appointment in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department!

The College of Medicine’s annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students through their final dissertation project.

Graduate student and member of Dr. Robert McKenna's laboratory, Carrie Lomelino was awarded a bronze award at the 43rd annual Medical Guild Research Symposium.

The Advancement to Candidacy Award, aimed at recognizing outstanding students in their mid-tenure after they have passed their qualifying examination in their third year of study, was awarded to Akilah Murray and two other finalists.

UF College of Medicine Dean Michael L. Good, M.D., held a dean’s grand rounds panel discussion with a panel of five faculty, including Biochemistry professor, Dr. Mavis Agbandje-McKenna.

To highlight the work of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s undergraduates, the department held the first annual undergraduate poster session where the undergraduate research students presented their work.

Congratulations to graduate students, Melissa Hale, Jana Jenquin, and Carrie Lomelino, on receiving the 2018 Wanda and Richard Boyce Awards for her outstanding graduate research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

A graduate from Drs. Mavis and Robert McKenna's lab in 2012, Bala now works at Syngene International Limited, a contract research organization in Bangalore, India as a principal investigator focusing on protein purification, characterization and structure determination.

Graduate Student Appreciation Week is a chance for the university to give back to our amazing graduate student body for all of the work they do teaching, researching, and serving.