Year in and year out, the greens of BallenIsles Country Club have served as venue for an important men’s health cause, supporting scientific research on prostate cancer. Thanks in part to the leadership of longtime BallenIsles resident Jerome “Jerry” Blumberg, more than $1.2 million was raised for the cause…
Image Gallery Jerry Blumberg and Warren Hudson co-chaired the BallenIsles Men’s Golf Association Prostate Cancer Golf Tournament. The BallenIsles Men’s Golf Association Prostate Cancer Golf Tournament was held March 6, 2024.. Golfing for a cause: Dr. Keith Brumberger, Assc. Professor Kendall Nettles, Larry Kiefer, Jerry Blumberg,… Braving wind and rain,…
At “Innovating for Cures,” an event held at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology on Wednesday, innovators, philanthropists and venture capital investors discussed what’s required to accelerate biomedical research advances out of the lab and into the clinic.
Two of the nation’s most respected research institutions have closed their transaction that adds a Florida powerhouse meant to accelerate the pace of biomedical discoveries that benefit patients.
Former Skaggs graduate student Matthew Costales, Ph.D. mentoring medical student Christy LaFlamme in Disney lab at UF Scripps. Costales’ studies focus on developing tools and approaches to creating potential oral medications to target RNA, a new strategy for addressing previously ‘undruggable,’ incurable diseases. “I wouldn’t…
Rebecca Goydel, Ph.D., graduated from the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences in Jupiter, FL in May of 2021. Her dissertation involved development of new, cancer-targeting antibodies. She’s now Team Lead at a Boston-based biotechnology company that’s bringing AI to the field of immunotherapeutics. A first-generation college student,…
Donor Portrait Alan and Susan Fuirst Susan Fuirst knew her paternal grandmother had died of breast cancer. Her own mother also had breast cancer. Then, in 1986, she received the…
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