FIU Discovery

3D-printing personalized bone implants for pediatric cancer patients
With a background in civil engineering, Anamika Prasad works with doctors to develop solutions for cancer patients. Read more...

Healthy shark populations are crucial for healthy oceans
Decades of research led by Mike Heithaus reveals the role sharks play in our oceans. Read more...

FIU Discovery can help you optimize your digital presence and reduce the amount of time spent maintaining the same scholarly productivity data across various platforms within and beyond FIU, such as ORCID, Panther180 and ScienCV.  The platform is being rolled out as part of the Faculty Success Initiative, a University-wide effort that stives to promote faculty success in finding collaborators, communicating impact, and reducing burden by automating high-quality information to various digital touchpoints.

The fight against cyber threats: A conversation with Selcuk Uluagac
How 'thinking like a hacker' can help stay one step ahead of cybercriminals. Read more...

Optimizing sleep to improve children’s mental health
Dana McMakin wants to know if worrying at bedtime interferes with the brain’s routine ability to process and store memories during sleep. Read more...

Promising new drug candidate for Alzheimer’s
Kyung Bo Kim discovered compounds that improved cognitive function regardless of amyloid plaque buildup — an encouraging sign the treatment could benefit those at any stage of Alzheimer’s. Read more...

Nearing the end of mosquito-borne diseases
Neurogeneticist Matthew DeGennaro is the first scientist to make a mutant mosquito — a game-changing tool in researching mosquito behavior. Read more...

Gov. DeSantis announces $2 million to expand access to FIU personalized cancer treatment technology
Researcher Diana Azzam developed a functional precision medicine approach that tests potentially hundreds of already existing drugs against an individual’s tumor samples. According to the results of a clinical study published last year in Nature Medicine, 83% of patients treated with Azzam’s method showed improvement.Read more...