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USF Health faculty among teams selected for new CREATE Awards that will help solve critical challenges

USF Health faculty fill the four interdisciplinary teams of USF researchers who were recently awarded up to $1 million in seed funding through the Collaborative Research Excellence and Translational Efforts awards – a new initiative designed to catalyze new research and enhance USF’s impact. The USF-funded CREATE awards will support the launch of four multidisciplinary research projects in the areas of innovation, technology and aging, antimicrobial resistance, precision medicine, and AI-generated materials.

The projects include 67 faculty members from eight USF colleges. Here are full teams for the four winning projects:

Center for Antimicrobial Resistance (CAMRA):

  • Lead: Lindsey Shaw, Professor and Associate Chair, Natural Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  • John Adams, Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Kami Kim, Professor, Infectious Diseases, Morsani College of Medicine
     

Center for Innovation, Technology, and Aging (CITA):

  • Lead: Yu Sun, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • William Haley, Distinguished Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Tammy Allen, Distinguished Professor, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Hariom Yadav, Associate Professor, Neurosurgery & Brain Repair, Morsani College of Medicine
  • William Kearns, Research Associate Professor, Retired Meritoriously, Child and Family Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Shalini Jain, CAEBR - Non-Tenure Asst Prof, Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Yili Ren, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Yangxin Huang, Professor, Public Health, College of Public Health
  • Shaun Canavan, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Hongdao Meng, Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • John Licato, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Ram Bishnoi, Assoc Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Theresa Beckie, Professor, College of Nursing
  • Zhuo Lu, Assoc Professor, Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Maria Restrepo, Chair and Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Mingyang Li, Assoc Professor, Industrial and Management Systems, College of Engineering
  • Ning Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Tempestt Neal, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Claire Smith, Assistant Prof, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Redwan Alqasemi, Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Michelle Arnold, Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (Sarasota Manatee Campus)
  • Bo Pei, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, College of Education
  • Zhao Han, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Dmitry Goldgof, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • John Templeton, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Yu Zhang, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Mauricio Pamplona Segundo, Assoc Professor of Instruction, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Lindsay Peterson, Assistant Research Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Victoria Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Julia Woodward, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Ganesh Halade, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Debra Dobbs, Professor, Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Lawrence Hall, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Theresa Chisolm, Vice Provost & Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Brian Bunnell, Research Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine
     

USF Precision Medicine Program:

  • Lead: Rays H.Y. Jiang, Associate Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Matthew Anderson, Associate Director, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Stephen Liggett, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Thomas McDonald, Professor, Director, USF Heart Institute, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • XiaoMing Liu, Associate Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Hariom Yadav, Associate Professor, Director Microbiome Institute, Center for Aging, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Mark Margres, Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Xingmin Sun, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Min Zhang, Scientific Researcher, Interim Director, Genomics Core Facilities, Genomics Core, College of Public Health
  • Lawrence Hall, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sudeep Sarkar, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Deborah Cragun, Director USF genetic counseling program, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Katherine Drabiak, Professor, PHIRE, College of Public Health
  • John Adams, Professor, Director of GHIDR (Global Health Infectious Disease Research Center) and USF genomics, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Billy Baker, Distinguished Univ Professor, Chemistry, College or Arts and Sciences
  • Christian Brechot, Professor, Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Dominic D'Agostino, Associate Professor, Molecular pharmacology and physiology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Rita DeBate, Professor, Director, Center for Applied Lifestyle Medicine,
  • Kami Kim, Professor, Division Chief, Infectious Diseases, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Marilyn Stern, Professor, Child and family health, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
  • Thomas Taylor-Clark, Professor, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Gopal Thinakaran, Professor & Interim Dir. CEABR, Byrd Institute, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Eva Uddin, Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Derek Wildman, Professor, Global Health, College of Public Health
  • Bi Zhao, Assistant Professor & Director Genomics Computational Core, Global Health, College of Public Health
     

Protein-Inspired Synthetic Macromolecular Materials:

  • Lead: David Simmons, Associate Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Jianfeng Cai, Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Vladimir Uversky, Professor, Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine
  • Lawrence Hall, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sudeep Sarkar, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Sameer Varma, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Lawrence Stern, Assistant Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
  • Rituparna Samanta, Assistant Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
     

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