Awards Overview

UF Research Foundation Professorships

The University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorships are announced at the end of April. The Professorship is awarded to tenured faculty members with a distinguished current record of research excellence.

2018 UF College of Medicine Research Foundation Professorship Awardees

George Drusano, MD

Professor
Department of Medicine

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Jennifer L. Bizon, PhD

Professor
Department of Neuroscience

Alfred S. Lewin, PhD

Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics &
Microbiology

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Barry Setlow, PhD

Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Dietmar W. Siemann, PhD

Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology

2017 UF College of Medicine Research Foundation Professorship Awardees

Barry J. Byrne, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Desmond A. Schatz, MD

Professor
Department of Pediatrics

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Stephanie M. Karst, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Michael J. Haller, MD

Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Suming Huang, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dominick Joseph Angiolillo, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Medicine

2016 UF College of Medicine Research Foundation Professorship Awardees

Yuqing Li, PhD

Professor
Department of
Neurology

Clayton Mathews, PhD

Professor
Department of
Pathology, Immunology, &
Laboratory Medicine

Leonid L. Moroz, PhD

Professor
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience

Laura Ranum, PhD

Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology

John R. Wingard MD

Professor
Department of Medicine

2015 UF College of Medicine Research Foundation Professorship Awardees

Scott Berceli, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Surgery and Bioengineering

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Elizabeth Shenkman PhD

Professor and Chair
Department of Health Outcomes and Policy

Martin Cohn, PhD

Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Roland Herzog, PhD

Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Sara Jo Nixon, PhD

Professor
Department of Psychiatry

K.V. Chalam, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair
Department of Ophthalmology

2014 UF Research Foundation Professorship Awardees

Chen Liu, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine

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Lauren McIntyre, PhD

Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and microbiology

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Lyle (Linc) Moldawer, PhD

Professor
Department of Surgery

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Rolf Renne, PhD

Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Mark Segal, MD, PhD

Associate Professor and Chief
Department of Medicine

Andrew Kaunitz, MD

Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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