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 鈥� a new initiative designed to catalyze new research and enhance USF鈥檚 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