UF Health Cancer Center Researchers Receive UF Invention of the Year Awards

The UF Health Cancer Center team of Christian Jobin, Ph.D., and Rachel Newsome was honored with an Invention of the Year award from UF Innovate for their work identifying gut biome bacteria that can make lung cancer tumors responsive to immunotherapy treatment.

The team was honored during UF Innovate’s annual celebration on Oct. 18. The event, called Standing InnOvation, honored nearly 600 University of Florida researchers who disclosed, optioned, or licensed technologies or received an issued patent in fiscal year 2023. It crowned one Innovator of the Year and six Inventions of the Year. Each of the six licensing teams at UF Innovate chooses one Invention of the Year. Out of the 300 technologies disclosed in the fiscal year 2023, licensing officers select one within their portfolio that stands out to them as having great potential.

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