UF Innovate | The Hub News

After Acquisition, Tampa Biotech Firm Looks Toward COVID-19 Vaccine

Serendipity is the word Alan Joslyn uses to describe the meeting and eventual acquisition of a Gainesville-based biotech firm. “It’s not every day all of a sudden a private company falls in your lap that’s working in COVID-19,” said Alan Joslyn, CEO of UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate...

Oragenics Acquires Noachis Terra Inc., to Develop Its TerraCoV2 NIH-Generated SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19) Vaccine Candidate Utilizing “Spike Protein”

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis, announced its acquisition of UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Noachis Terra Inc., following its entry into a stock...

Twelve Meditation Tips During the Coronavirus Pandemic by TAO Connect

Sherry Benton, Ph.D., founder and chief science officer of UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub alum TAO Connect, a St. Petersburg, Florida–based virtual platform that provides online behavioral health resources, says that “there’s been a lot of medical research into meditation, particularly mindfulness meditation,” that has shown it...

Biotech Firm Picks Gainesville As It Seeks COVID-19 Vaccine

Noachis Terra Inc., a new biotechnology company that will focus its efforts on the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 announced its headquarters will be located in Gainesville at UF Innovate | The Hub. Interim President Gary Ascani said the company is working on proposals to public and private investors...

TAO Connect Opens Mental Health Resources to the Public at No Cost to Assist With the Effects of COVID-19

UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub graduate TAO Connect, a digital platform designed to make behavioral health therapy more accessible and effective, announced the offering of a free online help session specific to COVID-19, in addition to opening up its entire suite of mindfulness meditation exercises to the...

From Chill to Kill – Pheronym Treated Nematodes Aggressively Disperse in Lower Temperatures

UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, an ag-biotech pest control company, announced the results of their third peer-reviewed study demonstrating the efficacy of their patented Nematism pheromone extract for bio-remediation of agricultural pests. In a study to be published in Scientific Reports...

New Lab Results From Healthtech Startup Bluewave Technologies, Inc. Indicate Ability to Kill Viruses and Bacteria on Fabrics and Other Hard-to-Treat Items – With Possible Applications in the Current Pandemic

New lab results from UF Innovate | The Hub alum Bluewave Technologies, Inc. indicate that when used as directed, its Bluewave device can effectively kill the non-enveloped virus, MS2 Bacteriophage, and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA). Bluewave Technologies is a startup focused on helping healthcare practitioners kill bacteria and viruses on...

Digital Mental Health Solution Offers Group Teletherapy to Universities

UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub graduate company TAO Connect, a digital platform designed to make behavioral health therapy more accessible and effective, announced the addition of its Group Room feature, while also offering its video conferencing services to all 180 of its university partners. With this update,...

Reflections on a 10-Year Journey in the Microbiome

Following a fortuitous path, researcher Aaron Cowley established expertise in process development for live biotherapeutic products at his company Captozyme. Today, as part of CDMO Arranta Bio, he is looking forward to helping drug developers bring the first microbiome-based therapies to the market. Dr. Aaron B. Cowley is the chief...

Hub Client SmartSteward Aiding in Detection and Prevention of COVID-19

UF Innovate | The Hub resident client SmartSteward Inc. is releasing antimicrobial surveillance and an alert system called SmartSteward EYE. It works in real-time, tracking lab reports, symptoms, and clinical observations to detect illnesses and immediately alert the medical staff by text. SmartSteward has been validated in nursing facilities for...