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UF Innovate News

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.

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...
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CEOs Discuss Sid Martin Biotech’s Impact on Their Business Success

For the past 25 years, UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech has provided the foundation that has turned many startup companies into successful businesses. For many CEOs, Sid Martin played a fundamental role in keeping their companies alive during their infant stages. Gary Ascani is a former CEO of Banyan...
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