UF News

SharpSpring Announces Winning Three New TrustRadius Awards

UF startup SharpSpring, Inc., a leading cloud-based sales and marketing automation platform, announced that it has been named first place for Best Usability, Best Feature Set Award and Best Customer Support on TrustRadius, a B2B software technology review platform.

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.

Orchard Tech Helps Create Savvy Seniors

Some of the best business ideas begin with family, and 25-year-old Ming Yang’s Orchard Tech, a UF Innovate | The Hub alum that helps Baby Boomers cross the digital divide, is one of them.

VetGuardian Is Working on Wireless Veterinary Care

Vik Ramprakash, CEO of UF startup Structured Monitoring Products Inc, has developed a solution called VetGuardian, a wireless device that sits a few feet away from the animal and requires no connection points to monitor the animal's vitals.

UF Researchers Develop Corn That Can Weather Warming Planet

Climate change will affect many agricultural crops, and field corn is likely no exception. Field corn, the starchy cousin of sweet corn, is a globally important cereal grain used in livestock feed and other products. And it has an Achilles heel: unseasonably warm nights.

Smell Tests Evaluated As Potential Tool To Identify COVID-19

A team of University of Florida neuroscientists will analyze two different smell tests under a National Institutes of Health grant aimed at developing inexpensive, at-home tests to help identify new cases of COVID-19 and provide a warning sign of a community outbreak in time to thwart it.

Dr. Merry Jennifer Markham Elected to ASCO Nominating Committee

Merry Jennifer Markham, M.D., FACP, FASCO, associate director for medical affairs at the UF Health Cancer Center and professor in the UF Division of Hematology and Oncology, has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Nominating Committee.

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