UF Health researchers win national award for identifying brain tumor intervention

April 12, 2016  By Michelle Jaffee A study identifying a possible new intervention to treat the deadliest of brain tumors garnered a national award today for University of Florida Health brain cancer researcher Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., and his research team, who were honored for an outstanding accomplishment in clinical research.

Mitchell and his team won a Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award for 2015 from the Clinical Research Forum, a consortium of top academic health centers, pharmaceutical companies and information technology companies. The group, which holds an annual competition to recognize major advances stemming from the nation’s investment in translational research, announced its winners during the Translational Science 2016 meeting in Washington, D.C.

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