$7.5M Research Project Aims To Improve Safety on Hazardous Tidal Mudflats
A UF researcher is leading a $7.5M, five-year project that examines the geomechanical properties of hazardous tidal mudflats to improve navigation safety.
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Rise Therapeutics Reports Ulcerative Colitis Dose Escalation Clinical Results for R-3750 at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) Conference in San Diego May 3–6
UF startup Rise Therapeutics announced that it will report its first clinical results from the completed dose escalation segment of its R-3750 Phase 1 clinical trial in ulcerative colitis at the upcoming DDW conference.
Tech Tuesday: Associate Professor at the University of Florida Researches the Correlation Between Infectious Pathogens Natural Disaster
This week’s Tech Tuesday features UF Innovate host Bethany Gaffey introducing Dr. Antar Jutla, an associate professor in Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at UF whose research models infectious pathogen risks after natural disasters like hurricanes.
Applying AI to Cancer Research, a UF Professor Helps Transform Medical Imaging
UF researchers are developing AI algorithms for a range of medical image analysis tasks, such as multimodal image fusion, cancer detection, organ segmentation, and enhanced image resolution for diagnosis.
Atsena Therapeutics Announces Oversubscribed $150 Million Series C Financing To Further Advance Ocular Gene Therapy Programs
UF startup Atsena Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on reversing or preventing blindness, announced the successful close of an oversubscribed $150 million Series C financing round.
UF’s Florida Semiconductor Institute in Jacksonville To Grow the Statewide Ecosystem
The Florida Semiconductor Institute, unveiled during a UF Board of Trustees meeting, is expected to drive innovation in semiconductor research and manufacturing.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Names 14 UF Faculty Lifetime Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected 14 faculty from the University of Florida to its newest class.
Tech Tuesday: University of Florida Lab Explores Tendon Models To Better Understand Maintenance
In this week's Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate host Bethany Gaffey interviews Harrison Broadaway, a graduate student in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) department at the University of Florida.
Ruchkin Receives NSF CAREER Award To Make Cyber-Physical Systems Aware of Their Limitations
UF researcher Ivan Ruchkin has received NSF CAREER Award to improve the safety of cyber-physical systems by developing methods to explicitly discover, validate, and manage the underlying assumptions that drive their behavior.
Using Generative AI To Engineer Enzymes, UF Researchers Help Transform Biotechnology
UF researchers are on a mission to transform biotechnology and improve the way genetic disorders are treated, with help from generative artificial intelligence, or AI, and a U.S. Department of Defense grant.
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