The UF Health Cancer Institute offers multiple events for middle and high school students and teachers, including symposia, lab tours, science presentations and workshops.
Cancer Research Symposium for High School Students
UF faculty and trainees have given presentations on their research and career paths at annual symposia at West Port High School in Ocala, Florida. More than 400 students from local schools participated in each symposium. The program offered opportunities for the students to network with UF faculty and trainees.
Research Presentations
Cancer Drugs from the Sea
Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D.
Medicinal Chemistry
Gut Health & Cancer Risk
Christian Jobin, Ph.D.
Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Exercise & Cancer
Dietmar Siemann, Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology
Epigenetics of Leukemia
Olga Guryanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
The Tumor Microenvironment
Dietmar Siemann, Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology
The Truth about Vaping
Ramzi Salloum, Ph.D.
Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics
Eco-Oncology: Exploiting Chaos in Complex Adaptive Systems
Brent Reynolds, Ph.D.
Neurosurgery
Cancer Drug Discovery & Molecular Targeting
Brian Law, Ph.D.
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
It’s All About the Data!
Ji-Hyun Lee, DrPH
Biostatistics
Treating Brain Cancers
Catherine Flores, Ph.D.
Neurosurgery
Protecting Astronauts from Space Radiation
Lori Rice, Ph.D.
Radiation Oncology
Programs for Science Teachers
Local science teachers returned to the classroom for a weeklong program on Cancer & Cell Biology, co-sponsored by the UF Health Cancer Institute and the UF Center for Precollegiate Education & Training. UF graduate students provided lectures on the Hallmarks of Cancer: molecular tumor biology, tumor suppressors, oncogenes, and epigenetic regulations, cancer immunology and immunotherapeutics, and the microbiome. The teachers participated in two hands-on research labs. The program also included sessions on disease ecology, polyploidy, nematodes, archeology, paleontology, ornithology, mammalogy, cytology and microscopy.
Research Workshops
Students from Newberry High School participated in two hands-on workshops.
