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¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵHealth faculty fill the four interdisciplinary teams of ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵresearchers 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 ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵcolleges. 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
   

¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵPrecision 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, ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵHeart 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 ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵgenetic 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 ¹ú²ú¶ÌÊÓƵgenomics, 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