The 2025 Innovation Lectures



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All events are held at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, 120 Scripps Way, Jupiter, Florida 33458.

Please join us for the second of The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute’s 2025 Innovation Lectures focused on brain health.

On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, scientists will give an update on the fight against one of the most aggressive brain cancers, glioblastoma.

Please reserve your seats now by adding your name to the form below, or by calling (561) 228-3000 and leaving a message with your name, contact, and number of tickets needed.

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The Wertheim UF Scripps 2025 Innovation Lectures

Reserve your seats for the 2025 Innovation Lectures: Healing the Brain and Outsmarting Cancer II.

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Meet the Speakers

Outsmarting Cancer II: Defeating Brain Cancer | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 6 p.m.

frontiers of drug discovery

Patrick Griffin, Ph.D.

It takes many types of experts and leading-edge technologies to devise new types of treatments. Scientific Director Patrick Griffin explains why this campus is uniquely positioned to discover new medicines.

patrick griffin

the cancer microenvironment

Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D.

Brain cancer outruns some of the best treatments because different cell types, healthy and unhealthy, sometimes cooprerate to conceal it. Data science is helping scientists crack this complexity.

Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D.

potential new treatment

Courtney Miller, Ph.D.

Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive cancers, using molecular machinery to rapidly grow and spread throughout the brain. A completely new therapeutic approach works by stopping that molecular machinery in its tracks, preventing tumor growth.

courtney miller

Healing the Brain | Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 6 p.m.

Long-term memory

Sathya Puthanveettil, Ph.D.

Experience sculpts our brains and creates long-term memories. How does this process work? How does it change in Alzheimer’s and dementia? Dr. Puthanveettil’s research illuminates these mysteries at the molecular level, in pursuit of better brain health.

Sathya Puthanveettil in his lab at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute.

Brain development

Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D.

Genetic mutations can have profound effects on brain development. Dr. Rumbaugh’s work on a genetic cause of autism is leading to new insights about brain circuitry, and illuminating possible strategies to improve recovery from brain injury through adulthood.

Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D.

Dementia, Parkinson’s

Bhavana Patel, D.O.

A diagnosis of Parkinson’s or dementia can be life-altering. Dr. Bhavana Patel joins us from UF’s Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, and UF’s
Department of Neurology, to discuss her work improving patients’ quality of life.

Dr. Bhavana Patel

Tiffany Kenney, news anchor for WPBF News 25.

guest moderator

Tiffany Kenney

Moderating the brain health discussion and taking your questions will be veteran journalist Tiffany Kenney, WPBF 25 news anchor.


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