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Gary Ostrander, vice president for research at Florida State University, wrote an op-ed for the Tallahassee Democrat about how FSU's research endeavors have a profound impact on the Tallahassee community and state. Ostrander specifically mentioned College of Medicine Professor Michael Blaber's work. With funding from the NIH, Blaber has developed an artificial human protein for stimulating cell growth that could provide relief for an incurable eye condition called Fuchs' Dystrophy.

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Lee Health has retained 20 of 24 doctors in Southwest Florida with its family medicine residency program. To attract more doctors to the growing region, the hospital system is collaborating with the FSU College of Medicine to create an internal medicine residency program that hopes to duplicate the same success.

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Social services organizations say that as of Thursday, July 17, they have heard of no residents in the migrant community of Immokalee being arrested during publicized operations planned in major cities across the U.S. Javier Rosado, a psychologist and director of clinical research at the FSU College of Medicine's Center for Child Stress and Health in Immokalee, said the stress and fear of arrests and worrying about family separation impacts children's abilities to learn and succeed.

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The impact of Hurricane Michael on child births in the Florida Panhandle will be studied by two FSU professors including FSU College of Medicine Chair of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine Les Beitsch. The study will be led by a team from Tulane University.

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Trefoil Therapeutics, a private biotechnology company, raised $28 million to develop novel engineered fibroblast growth factor-1 proteins as a therapy to treat serious corneal endothelial diseases and epithelial disorders. The technology underlying Trefoil’s platform was developed by co-founder Michael Blaber, Ph.D., and is licensed from Florida State University. 

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Researchers at FSU received a record $233.6 million in funding for fiscal year 2019.

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Lee Health recently celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2019 of the Florida State University College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program, which includes eight doctors.

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FSU researchers received a record level of funding from federal, state and private sources in the 2019 fiscal year, bringing in $233.6 million to the university to support investigations into areas such as health sciences, high energy physics and marine biology. This is a $7 million increase over the prior fiscal year.

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FSU has launched a new online curriculum for a professional certification in trauma and resilience. Joedrecka Brown Speights at the College of Medicine said, “It’s important for human services professionals to keep up with the new research on brain development so they remember there is always hope for healing after trauma.”