Molecular Medicine

Viruses infect cells with a goal of taking control to churn out new viral copies. Cells have learned to fight back.

Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D., Explores how cancer evolves – and how to outmaneuver it. Cancer is a moving target, constantly adapting, evolving and resisting treatment. Cancer biologist Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D., of The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, studies how tumors change over time, and how this…

Scripps Research awarded doctoral degrees to 59 graduate students, including eight from its partner program based at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, during its 32nd commencement.

Molecular biologist Ezgi Hacisuleyman, Ph.D., investigates how neurons respond to signals, changing in milliseconds. She recently joined the institute from The Rockefeller University.

See a photo gallery from "RNA: From Biology to Drug Discovery," held Jan. 17 and 18, 2023, at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute in Jupiter, Florida.

Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia, M.D., a member of the National Academy of Medicine, has been named associate VP for research at UF Health. He will be based at UF Scripps in Jupiter, Florida.

Florida’s statewide biotechnology industry organization, BioFlorida, awarded its 2022 Weaver H. Gaines Entrepreneur of the Year award to Courtney Miller, Ph.D.

When a virus infects a cell, it has one goal: hijack the cell’s protein-building systems to make new copies of itself. Biochemist James M. Burke, Ph.D. has joined the molecular medicine department at UF Scripps to advance studies of viral infection and innate immunity.

As cells are building proteins, the process is occasionally halted in error prior to completion. How cells sense these glitches is clearer thanks to Joazeiro lab.