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UF Health in Gainesville Begins Vaccinating High-Risk Health Care Employees Against COVID-19

University of Florida Health clinical caregivers who are most at risk of being exposed to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 began receiving vaccinations at the UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital, just two days after the first vaccinations in the state were administered at UF Health Jacksonville

Ology Bioservices Signs Built-to-Suit Lab Space, Adding 43,000 Square Feet to Headquarters

Avison Young facilitated a 42,500-square-foot lease agreement between Concept Companies and Ology Bioservices, a UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum, for a new built-to-suit lab space on the heels of a federal government contract for the company to expand production capabilities, including vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 once finalized.

Century 22 Solutions Joins Creek Technologies Company’s OASIS Team

UF Innovate | The Hub resident company Century 22 Solutions LLC (C22) formally announced that it joined with Creek Technologies Company's (CreekTech's) team pursuing opportunities under the General Services Administration (GSA) for the agency's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business (SB) Pool 1 Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC).

UF Awarded $1 Million for AI Research, Project to Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Underway

The University of Florida has awarded 20 faculty teams $50,000 each from UF Research’s Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund to pursue a range of AI-related projects.

Atsena Therapeutics Raises $55 Million Series A Financing to Advance LCA1 Gene Therapy Clinical Program, Two Preclinical Assets, and Novel Capsid Development for Ocular Diseases

UF startup Atsena Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on bringing the life-changing power of genetic medicine to reverse or prevent blindness, announced it has closed an oversubscribed $55 million Series A financing led by Sofinnova Investments with participation from additional new investors Abingworth and Lightstone Ventures.

Tabrizian and Bhunia Develop Clandestine Wireless ID Tags

In a new paper published in Nature’s Microsystems and Nanoengineering, a team led by Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian and Dr. Swarup Bhunia has demonstrated a novel product-labeling approach based on resonant nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS).

Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology Inducted As 2020 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Richard J. Melker, MD, Ph.D., a distinguished University of Florida Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology, has been elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.

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.

University of Florida Health Ophthalmology Researcher Awarded Prestigious Prize for Pioneering Work

University of Florida Health ophthalmology researcher William W. Hauswirth, Ph.D., whose long and distinguished career includes developing and testing treatments for multiple forms of genetic blindness, is among the scientists being recognized for their pioneering work to eradicate vision loss.

UF Health Jacksonville CEO Believed to Be First in Florida to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

The CEO of UF Health Jacksonville is believed to be the first person in the state of Florida to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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