Applebaum Masterclass in Research @UFMedicine Series
The Joseph & Leila Applebaum Visiting Professorship endowment enables the College of Medicine to invite leading researchers and clinicians to lecture to UF faculty, students and staff.
About the Series
The Scholars in Research evoke open and stimulating discussions on novel research to share emerging knowledge in medical sciences.
Past Scholars in Research
2025 Celebration of Research keynote speaker
Nenad Sestan, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Nenad Sestan, the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine is a member of National Academy of Medicine and was listed in Nature’s “10 Who Mattered in Science”. He is recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Constance Lieber Prize and the Krieg Cortical Discoverer Prize. His research is focused on the molecular mechanisms that govern human brain development and evolution.
2023 Scholar in research
John Cowart, Ph.D.
Dr. John Cowart Jr., recipient of the National Academy of Medicine’s 2023 Catalyst Award for innovation in healthy longevity, is a University of Florida alum and the CEO and co-founder of Outlier Technology, LLC, an early-stage neuroscience start-up company based in San Diego, CA and Gainesville, FL.
2023 Celebration of Research keynote speaker
Emery N. Brown, Ph.D.
Emery Neal Brown is an American statistician, computational neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital.
