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Sid Martin Biotech Bids Long-Time Leader Merrie Shaw Goodbye

Merrie Shaw has made a tremendous impact on the economies of Alachua County and the state of Florida by helping companies find talent, funding, and partnerships.

UF Startup Shadow Health Is Going Big and Staying Home

In early December, local UF startup Shadow Health, which develops virtual simulations for nursing and healthcare education, became part of Elsevier, a global leader in information and analytics, that is part of RELX, an even larger global provider of information-based analytics. The acquisition will hasten Shadow Health’s ability to reach its biggest goals.

Alachua’s Life Sciences Ecosystem Raises Over $1.0 Billion in 2020

UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech announces the City of Alachua’s life sciences industry has raised more than $1 billion in 2020. The life sciences community has accelerated growth with government grants and contracts, mergers and acquisitions, successful financing rounds, and sales revenue.

PanVent Emergency Ventilator Created to Fill Urgent Need During COVID-19

Dr. Samsun Lampotang has spent his career engineering solutions to medical problems. At the start of 2020, Lampotang’s focus was on designing, building and validating mixed reality guided intervention simulators to train physicians and nurses in medical procedures without putting patients at risk. But then COVID-19 changed all this.

UAVs and AI Are the Newest Tools Growers Can Use for Crop Management

They say knowledge is power. That philosophy is what drives Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis, an assistant professor at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center in Immokalee, where he leads the precision agriculture engineering program.

Concept Companies Provides New Lobby Furniture in Honor of Sid Martin Biotech’s 25th Anniversary

Gainesville-based developer Concept Companies has made a considerable sponsorship to the award-winning UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech incubation program making possible the purchase of new lobby furniture for the benefit and use of its resident entrepreneurs.

UF Researcher Finds a Way to Mitigate Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a Complication of Coronavirus Infection

Why would a doctor specializing in gastrointestinal disorders be interested in therapy for COVID-19, a primarily pulmonary disease? The answer lies in a seemingly convoluted link between the gastrointestinal tract and the lungs: water.

Inspired by Photosynthesis, David Wei Creates Cost-Effective and Sustainable Industrial Chemicals

By using solar energy, the technology could have a huge economic impact At first glance, it might seem a bit farfetched for a chemist specializing in metallic and semiconductor nanomaterials to cite nature as his primary source of inspiration. But to discover the next big innovation in clean energy, David...

University of Florida Researcher Creates Innovative Training Platform That Makes Cyberspace a Safer Place

It teaches how to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in hardware and software Dr. Mark Tehranipoor and his team at UF’s Florida Institute for Cyber Security (FICS) Research created an innovative training program at the National Microelectronics Security Training (MEST) Center with the sole mission to make current and future...

What if You Could Take Cancer Cells and Make Them Into the Therapy?

This discovery gives cancer a one-two punch Cancer is the second leading cause of death in America and is the singular focus of research labs across the globe – with so much brain power tackling this problem, why does the solution remain elusive? Unfortunately, cancer isn’t just one thing: it...