Our Partners

Part of a premier scientific network created by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of Health, Pepper Centers are united to improve the quality of life of older people.

The Pepper Center at UF has had financial backing from the NIA since 2006. The people involved with our Pepper Center include accomplished senior scientists, early-career faculty, research staff, post-doctoral researchers, and students from a broad range of research-related entities.

The Division of Geriatric Medicine is a division of the Department of Medicine within the University of Florida College of Medicine. As we age our bodies change and so does the type of medical we need. The Division’s board-certified geriatricians provide primary care to our aging patients and support their specific needs with our multi-disciplinary approach to care.

Our research and teaching focus is on the systemic challenge of how our different cells, tissues and organs work together, over the lifespan, to support health.

PRICE is a multi-college Center of Excellence that serves as the professional home for UF scientists, clinicians, and trainees dedicated to improved understanding and treatment of pain. 

The goal of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences (CCPS) research program is to reduce the cancer burden in the UF Health Cancer Institute’s catchment area and beyond.

The Precision Research Center brings together a team of scientists, clinicians, learners, innovators in industry, and community partners. What unites us is a passion for improving health and wellness for older adults.  

Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers are Veterans Health Administration centers of excellence focused on aging. They were established by Congress in 1975 in order to improve the health and health care of older Veterans. 

The Institute for Population Health in Jacksonville serves as a hub for groundbreaking research on aging in Northeast Florida.

I-DAPT conducts interdisciplinary research and prepares future rehabilitation scientists to enhance occupational performance, community mobility, and participation for individuals and populations across the life span. We partner with communities, harness technology, and incorporate state of the science methodologies to foster productive and meaningful engagement in everyday life.

With strengths in both preclinical discovery-based research and clinical science, CAM Center researchers are dedicated to the translation of leading-edge discoveries about brain aging into interventions that will preserve cognitive function and improve the quality of lives for older adults.

1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease & Research Center (ADRC), funded by the National Institute on Aging, evaluates people for diagnosis and participation in research studies. The 1Florida ADRC is consortium of Florida institutions helping to change the current understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias from being incurable, inevitable and largely untreatable to a new reality in which these diseases are curable, preventable and treatable.

The UF Myology Institute brings researchers from throughout UF campus, private industry, and other institutions together in a collaborative effort to further the understanding and treatment of neuromuscular diseases.

The MBI offers a rich scientific and intellectual environment that facilitates multidisciplinary understanding of nervous system function and dysfunction. The institute’s 300-plus investigators from across UF seek to enhance lives through neuroscience research and education.

The Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health is a leading center for care, research, and education in complex neurological disorders like Parkinson’s, ALS, and Alzheimer’s. Our team provides cutting-edge treatments and advances research to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

At the BRRC, interdisciplinary teams of scientists conduct research to improve the effectiveness of neurorehabilitation. They work to improve current treatments as well as to create new treatments that help restore impairments caused by neurologic diseases and injuries such as stroke, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury.  BRRC investigators also study how such impairments affect Veterans as they age over time and how to treat those effects.

The Perioperative Cognitive Anesthesia Network (PeCAN) is an interdisciplinary enterprise at UF Health Shands Hospital where anesthesiologists, neuropsychologists, geriatric medicine specialists, surgeons and nurses plan patient care prior to surgery.

PeCAN was established in August of 2017 as part of the Presurgical Center to be a clinical-training-research program designed to address the needs of older adults at risk for poor postoperative outcomes.

The Division is the home for the state-funded UF Memory Disorders Center, many collaborations with neuropsychology (inclusive of a university inter-disciplinary center), and a number of collaborations with the McKnight Brain Institute/Fixel Institutes. In addition to coordinating memory clinic initiatives, the Division directs and coordinates many of the activities of the Trauma, Concussion, and Sports (TRACS) Neuromedicine (TRACS) program and the newly formed UF Brain Health program.

The UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute seeks to improve human health by accelerating the translation of scientific discoveries and the implementation of evidence-based best practices for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure of human disease.

The OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network is a collaboration among researchers, clinicians and patients in Florida and health systems across the United States to create an enduring infrastructure for a wide range of health research, including pragmatic clinical trials, comparative effectiveness research, implementation science studies, observational research, and cohort discovery. The OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Network is united to address to address some of today’s biggest health challenges.

The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology advances human health through biomedical research, drug discovery and clinical studies, while providing outstanding educational opportunities to inspire and train the next generation of scientists.