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Enabling Access: The Miami Project Collaborates with High School Students to Engineer Solutions for People with Physical Challenges
Teaching X-rays to Speak: How AI Could Predict Fractures Before They Happen
How a Single Gene Mutation Drives Cognitive Impairment, Anxiety and Social Deficits
An Accidental Scholar of Physiology and Biophysics Retires
Can Chemo-Resistant Cancer Cells Be Resensitized?
Nanobody-Based Immunotherapy: A Potential Solution for Major Depressive Disorders?
Understanding What’s Going on Inside of Cells: The Dimensionality of Gene Expression
Fall 2025
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The Quiet Evolution
Philanthropy Propels Early-Career Researchers
A gift from an alumnus supports a postdoctoral researcher pursuing Alzheimer’s disease research
By Stacey Bomser
Photography by Sonya Revell
... Fall 2025
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The Quiet Evolution
Dissecting Our Cellular Power Plants
Once entirely separate organisms, cell mitochondria hold the secrets to a variety of diseases
By Josh Baxt
Photography by Sonya Revell... Fall 2025
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The Quiet Evolution
A Better Way to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Transplanted islet cells could replace injected insulin
By Josh Baxt
Photography by Sonya Revell
... Fall 2025
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The Quiet Evolution
Targeting Deadly Brain Tumors
Married researchers work to move the glioblastoma goalposts
By Josh Baxt
Photography by Sonya Revell
... Fall 2025
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The Quiet Evolution
Mining DNA for Alzheimer’s Secrets
Studies of global populations reveal game-changing clues
By Josh Baxt
Photography by Sonya Revell
... Fall 2025
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The Quiet Evolution
How Basic Science Transforms Lives
By Josh Baxt
Photo Illustration by Spooky Pooka
... Fall 2025
Since the Miller School of Medicine admitted its first class of medical students in 1952, it has trained generations of physicians and researchers to enhance the health and well-being of South Florida and beyond. Ever Brighter: The University of Miami’s Campaign for Our Next Century took that work to another level.With almost $1.5 billion raised for the Miller School and UHealth – University of Miami Health System — more than half of the campaign’s nearly $2.7 billion total — donors nearly doubled UM’s endowment, expanded scholarships and powered groundbreaking research across fields from neurology to oncology.Here’s a look at some of what Ever Brighter accomplished:
Growing Our Endowment:
REALIZING A BOLD TOMORROW
Gifts to the university’s endowment ensure support for physician-researchers and their work for generations, resulting in extraordinary benefits for the patients and communities we serve. Ever Brighter expanded UM’s endowment to almost twice its size and funded 54 new endowed... Fall 2025
Confetti and cheers filled conference rooms throughout UHealth – University of Miami Health System facilities on Aug. 25, as leadership, faculty and staff learned via Zoom that UHealth had received the coveted Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).Magnet designation, the gold standard of nursing excellence, is a rigorous, voluntary credential pursued by and awarded to health care organizations deeply committed to delivering exceptional patient care, fostering innovation and advancing professional nursing practice.But the news got better: the ANCC representative on the screens told the assembled providers that UHealth had received the even-higher Magnet with Distinction designation, making it one of fewer than 1% of health systems — and the first health system in Florida — to receive the elite honor, which acknowledges health care organizations that demonstrate the absolute highest standards of nursing excellence, patient outcomes and innovation.
“This is an historic achievement, something we can all celebrate, as it signals our clinical... Fall 2025
Nearly 20% of U.S. adolescents aged 12 to 17 report suffering a depressive episode in the previous year, more than double the 8% figure in 2006. But when thoughts turn to suicide, intervention is needed — and fast.Vilma Gabbay, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Miller School, seeks to understand what causes depression and the urge for suicide in young people so she can change the direction of anxious young lives.“Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in this age group,” Dr. Gabbay said. “It’s heartbreaking when young people, who have so much to live for, feel compelled to take such a drastic step. It’s critical that we identify those at risk as early as possible and act to prevent a potential catastrophe.”Dr. Gabbay is zeroing in on one key factor in depression: anhedonia — the inability to experience pleasure. She has found that anhedonia is tied to a disruption in the brain’s reward system, which itself... Fall 2025
The University of Miami Board of Trustees has unanimously selected Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., as the next chief executive officer of UHealth – University of Miami Health System, as well as executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Miami.Dr. Parekh, a globally renowned urologic oncologist, health care innovator and leader in academic medicine, has served as the chief operating officer of UHealth since 2020, and, alongside University of Miami President Joseph J. Echevarria, jointly engineered UHealth’s dramatic turnaround during the past five years.“Dipen has played a pivotal role each step of the way as the University of Miami Health System has grown into one of the top academic medical centers in the country,” noted President Echevarria. “He understands the mission — from the operating room to the classroom to the boardroom — and he embodies the excellence we strive to deliver for our patients, students and community.”
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Dissecting Our Cellular Power Plants
A Better Way to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Targeting Deadly Brain Tumors
Mining DNA for Alzheimer’s Secrets
The Quiet Evolution
A New Era of Excellence
Delirium with Distinction
Pleasure on Pause
Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., Named CEO of UHealth
