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Dr. Annette Khaled

Dr. Annette Khaled is the Head of the Division of Cancer Research and tenured Professor at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Khaled’s research spans both basic and translational areas of cancer research and involves the development of cancer therapeutics, nanotechnology and immunotherapy to treat the most invasive and aggressive forms of breast, lung, and prostate cancer.

UCF Cancer Research

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Health & Medicine
Research in 60 Seconds: Testing VR Exposure Therapy to Treat PICS
Associate Professor Brian Peach’s research examines how to help the more than half of the 5.7 million Americans admitted to an ICU each year who…
Community
UCF Researcher, Nonprofit Create AI-Powered Tool to Reduce Florida Overdoses
Through her collaborative research with Project Overdose, Kendall Cortelyou helped develop an online dashboard to prevent fatal drug overdoses by alerting local authorities to the…
Research
UCF Researchers Create the “Fantastic Four” Chemical Standards for Forensic Science
Interdisciplinary research, led by Associate Professor Matthieu Baudelet and chemistry doctoral students, fosters new global standards for forensic science work.