Shaping the future of health
The Morsani College of Medicine has active research programs in basic, translational, and clinical sciences. Research is carried out in Departments, Institutes, Centers and at our Veterans Hospitals and our primary teaching facility, Tampa General Hospital. In addition, there are rich collaborations with the Colleges of Public Health, Nursing and Pharmacy as well as the USF College of Arts and Sciences.
Our goal is to pursue new knowledge in the biomedical sciences, clinical sciences, and healthcare delivery, relevant to human health and disease. Please explore our research initiatives using the tabs above. The resources tab provides information for current faculty to facilitate research efforts.
Laura M. Bohn, PhD
Senior Associate Vice President of Research, USF Health
Vice Dean for Research, Morsani College of Medicine
Professor, Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
Email: lbohn@usf.edu
Research Day
Celebrating health science research on March 5, 2027
Call for Abstracts Submissions Now Open!
October 28, 2026 - January 8, 2027, 11:55pm.
Health Science Innovation
Acute Kidney Injury Disrupts Cardiac Remodeling via SerpinA3N
CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that SerpinA3N serves as a key mediator of cardiorenal syndrome type 3 pathogenesis, by inhibiting granzyme B, which promotes profibrotic remodeling in the heart following AKI. Targeting SerpinA3N could be a potential therapeutic approach that restores balanced extracellular matrix turnover and mitigates cardiac fibrosis.
Zero-Shot Protein-Ligand Binding Site Prediction from Protein Sequence and SMILES
MOTIVATION: Accurate identification of protein-ligand binding sites is critical for mechanistic biology and drug discovery, yet predictive performance varies substantially across ligand families and data-availability regimes. We present a systematic ligand-aware benchmark and evaluation framework for residue-level binding-site prediction across three settings: overrepresented ligands with abundant examples, underrepresented ligands with limited examples, and zero-shot ligands unseen during...
Luxatio Erecta with Complex Medical Decision-Making Regarding Reduction: A Case Report
CONCLUSION: Inferior shoulder dislocations are rare; severe hyperglycemia in diabetics is not an absolute contraindication to procedural sedation, but the patient may need individualized risk-benefit assessment.
Treatment-seeking time and its determinants among patients with confirmed malaria in Thailand: a national surveillance analysis, 2012-2024
CONCLUSIONS: Most individuals with confirmed malaria in Thailand were diagnosed within a relatively short period following symptom onset, although delays persisted among migrants, individuals with non-P. vivax infections, and residents of elimination-phase settings. Targeted interventions to improve access to care and awareness among mobile populations and low-transmission areas could further reduce treatment-seeking delays and support Thailand's malaria elimination goals.
USF Health and Luxembourg Institute of Health launch International Society for Vocal Biomarkers
USF Health and the Luxembourg Institute of Health launched the International Society for Vocal Biomarkers, a global group that brings researchers, clinicians, patients and industry together to move voice-based health tools into patient care.
USF Health and Luxembourg Institute of Health launch International Society for Vocal Biomarkers
Annual IPE Day Explores the Power of Movement
More than 1,500 attendees joined in person and virtually for the ninth annual IPE Day to discover how movement can be one of the most preventive forms of medicine.
Annual IPE Day Explores the Power of Movement
Understanding the hidden wounds of military service
USF Health's HBOT substudies take a closer look at how sleep, hearing and balance and the gut-brain connection may provide new insight to the path of recovery from the hidden wounds of military service.