Health & Medicine

Mysteries of the heart: FSU researchers find small mutation disrupts protein network, causing heart disease

Published: June 23, 2021 | 2:03 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Each day the average human heart beats 100,000 times and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood. It’s a process that is critical to life, and yet it often goes awry for unknown reasons. “Despite knowing a lot about muscle contraction and the heart in particular, there are still a number of questions scientists have about the underlying structures and […]

FSU doctoral program in nurse anesthesia earns max 10-year reaccreditation

Published: June 17, 2021 | 1:00 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine, News

Dr. Stacey VanDyke (center) with NAP students at clinical site.

In a letter Tuesday, the directors of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Education Programs (COA) approved the reaccreditation for FSU Panama City’s graduate program in Nurse Anesthesia for a 10-year period, the maximum a university can achieve. Initially accredited in 2015, the program began at the master’s level. In July 2020, the State […]

“A monumental accomplishment” — 119 new physicians from the Class of 2021

Published: May 18, 2021 | 5:54 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Fort Pierce campus dean Juliette Lomax Homier presents Jessica Gonzalez-Lorente with her academic hood at the graduation ceremony for the Florida State University College of Medicine M.D. Class of 2021. (Colin Hackley/College of Medicine)

Gathered again for the first time since they began clinical rotations two years ago, the M.D. Class of 2021 on Sunday afternoon embraced the achievement of becoming a physician while navigating an extraordinary time in world history. As class president Brian Day noted: “Graduating from medical school under any circumstances is nothing short of a […]

Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences program graduates its largest class to date

Published: April 28, 2021 | 4:59 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine, University News

The Florida State University College of Medicine.

Ninety-seven future health professionals from Florida State’s Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences (IMS) program crossed the stage at an FSU commencement ceremony on Sunday, April 18. The largest graduating class of IMS students to date pushes the total to 254 graduates since the program opened its doors to undergraduates in the fall of 2016. “We believe all […]

FSU College of Medicine once again nation’s most selective medical school

Published: April 22, 2021 | 11:06 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine, University News

For the second consecutive year, the Florida State University College of Medicine is the nation’s most selective medical school for admissions among schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report, according to data collected by the publication. The College of Medicine received more than 7,100 applications for the 120-person class that began in May 2020 […]

FSU researcher awarded $2.2M NIH grant to study impact of Alzheimer’s disease on sleep-related brain function

Published: April 21, 2021 | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Assistant Professor Aaron Wilber has discovered new insights into how the brain is organized to help a person navigate.

A Florida State University researcher has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study sleep-related brain function in Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive disorder that affects memory and behavior in millions of Americans. Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Aaron Wilber will receive the grant, awarded through the NIH’s National Institute […]

FSU College of Medicine research links Parkinson’s disease and neuroticism

Published: April 14, 2021 | 2:18 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

New research from the Florida State University College of Medicine has found that the personality trait neuroticism is consistently associated with a higher risk of developing the brain disorder Parkinson’s disease. The research by Professor of Geriatrics Antonio Terracciano and team, published in Movement Disorders, found that adults in the study who scored in the […]

Key research advance could spawn new treatments for heart diseases

Published: March 24, 2021 | 10:44 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Scientists peering into the beating heart have solved a decades-old, fundamental mystery about how the heart works. The revelation could herald the development of new treatments for heart diseases — the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Florida State University and the University of Virginia have observed a tiny muscle […]

Florida State University College of Medicine announces Match Day results

Published: March 19, 2021 | 3:35 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine, University News

Florida State University College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty celebrates during the college's 2021 Match Day virtual event. (FSU Photography Services/Bruce Palmer)

Graduating students in the Florida State University College of Medicine’s M.D. Class of 2021 learned where they will enter residency training this summer during the college’s Match Day ceremony Friday. The Match Day ceremony was held virtually again this year, with most students receiving their news at home. “This was an especially challenging year for […]

Florida State medical student first to receive Van Vessem scholarship

Published: March 19, 2021 | 12:36 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Jimmy Brown receives a white physician's coat during a 2017 ceremony at the FSU College of Medicine. Brown, a member of the M.D. Class of 2021, became the first student to recieve the Nancy Van Vessem, M.D. Memorial Scholarship. (FSU Photography Services)

A Florida State University medical student will help continue the mission of a Tallahassee physician whose life was cut tragically short. Medical student Jimmy Brown, who grew up in the Panhandle town of Hosford (population 704), has made a lasting impression of small-town humility and compassion with the Tallahassee physician-faculty members who taught him the […]

FSU College of Medicine researcher develops new possibilities to prevent sudden cardiac death

Published: February 17, 2021 | 2:59 pm | Posted in: Health & Medicine

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences Stephen Chelko, right, works in his laboratory with graduate student Maicon Landim-Vieira. Chelko’s lab has published research providing important new insights about arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden cardiac death among young athletes. (Mark Bauer/FSU College of Medicine)

Nearly a half-million people a year die from sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the U.S. — the result of malfunctions in the heart’s electrical system. A leading cause of SCD in young athletes is arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), a genetic disease in which healthy heart muscle is replaced over time by scar tissue (fibrosis) and fat. […]

FSU researcher examines ways cocaine alters gene expression

Published: January 7, 2021 | 11:22 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

New research from Florida State University identifies a novel gene that plays a functional role in cocaine addiction. In a new paper in the journal Biological Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Biological Science Jian Feng and his colleagues reveal that cocaine use in mice resulted in changes to what’s called long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), a major type of […]

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