Unstoppable Minds

Shannon Boye is the associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida here to talk about her journey in academia and what led her to try gene therapy in the fight against a mutation causing babies to be born blind.

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How does a question about woodpeckers lead to groundbreaking research on neurological disease? In this episode, associate professor Dr. Lakiesha Williams talks about her work to understand traumatic brain injury and the culture of mentorship she created along the way.

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It took a decade of planning and effort by Brent Christner and colleagues to demonstrate that life exists in lakes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Three half-mile boreholes, 10 million dollars, and 1 million pounds of equipment later, he’s sharing what they discovered under the ice.

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Five out of a million people are diagnosed every year. She was one of them. Mariel White talks about her diagnosis with Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA)—formerly known as Churg Strauss syndrome—and the lengths UF went to help her return when it left her paralyzed from the waist down.

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Do you think everyone receives the same quality of care when they visit the doctor? According to professor Laura Guyer, not always. Hear how she leads the only undergraduate academic program in the country designed to teach students across disciplines how to address barriers and take on unseen bias in healthcare.

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Listen to the breakthroughs and backstories of the people powering real world change from the University of Florida.

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