CORAL GABLES, Florida, Sept. 15 -- The University of Miami issued the following news: * * * The South Florida institution will be the official bank of the University, offering a host of preferred banking services. * * * Two of South Florida's deepest-rooted institutions--the University of Miami and City National Bank of Florida (CNB)--are teaming up to create a new partnership that will span the entire University ecosystem as CNB becomes the official bank of the University of Miami. The par  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 15 -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2024: Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Eudaldo "Eddie" Lopez to the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Miami-Dade County. Eudaldo "Eddie" Lopez Lopez is a Senior Therapeutic Specialist in Psychiatry for DMS Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. He is the recipient of the 2015 Southeast Rising Star Award from Sunovio Pharmaceuticals. Lopez earned his bachelor's degree  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 15 -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2024: Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Samantha Ferrin, Robert "Bob" Majka, Monica Russell, and Chris Young to the Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged. Samantha Ferrin Ferrin is the Senior Government Relations Director at Elevance Health. She is currently appointed to the Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee and previously served as the Chief of  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 15 -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2024: Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announces two judicial appointments to the Hillsborough County Court. Jeremy Griner, of Plant City, to serve as Judge on the Hillsborough County Court Griner has worked as the Solo Practitioner at Jeremy R. Griner, P.A. since 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman, LLP. He earned his bachelor's degree from the U  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Josh Baxt For the last 30 years, Miller School faculty members have conducted seminal research on therapeutic hypothermia and targeted temperature management. This work laid the foundation for using temperature management to treat cardiac arrest, neurotrauma, stroke and other conditions. In July, Helen Bramlett, Ph.D., professor of neurological surgery at the University of Mi  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Lisette Hilton Pancreatic cancer is not the most common of cancers, but it is among the deadliest. A pancreatic cancer diagnosis and resulting treatment can severely impact patients' health and quality of life, according to researcher Sara Fleszar-Pavlovic, Ph.D., of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "There is s  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Alan Gomez Growing up in Kingston, Jamaica, Matthew Clarke saw from an early age how dysfunctional the health care system was on his island nation. He watched his family, friends and neighbors struggling to receive the care they needed and wanted to do something about it. But none of Clarke's parents or grandparents had gone to college. He didn't know any doctors or nurses an  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Josh Baxt Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, McGill University and the Karolinska Institute have shown, for the first time, how problems with the mitochondrial protein TACO1 cause a form of Leigh syndrome, a rare, neurometabolic condition. The team found TACO1 dysfunction makes it harder for mitochondrial ribosomes to effectively make the COX1 p  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 15 (TNSres) -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Josh Baxt Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center have received a four-year, $1.5 million grant to study how the SARS-CoV-2 virus instigates myocarditis, a generally rare form of heart muscle inflammation. The research group will tease out the virus's relationship with cardiac low-density lipoprotei  more