Sanford-Burnham news

The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute now has 17 lead scientists at Lake Nona and is more than halfway toward fulfilling its plan to recruit up to 30 principal investigators to the site, it announced recently. One of the hubs in Central Florida's growing Medical/Life Science cluster, the recruitment further expands the Institute’s expertise in basic discovery and its translational capabilities to develop therapeutics aimed at pervasive diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Fraydoon Rastinejad, Ph.D. and Sepideh Khorasanizadeh, Ph.D., both from the University of Virginia, are the newest members of the faculty.