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Life at Low Pressure: Planetary Protection and the Habitability of Mars

A recent study supported by the NASA Planetary Protection Research Program is lending new insight into hypopiezotolerant microorganisms. “The term ‘hypopiezotolerant’ means a microbe that is...

TheraVab Biosciences Announces Exclusive Option to License Engineered Receptor Immunobiotherapy for the Treatment of Neu

TheraVab Biomedics Pte. Ltd., a pre-clinical stage immunotherapy company that aims at reversal of the inflammatory processes that lead to cancers, neurodegenerative ailments and cardiovascular...

Dr. Lampotang & Team Receive a UF Innovation Award for PanVentTM

Congratulations to Samsun Lampotang, Ph.D., FSSH, FAIMBE, Gordon L. Gibby, MD, MSEE, David Lizdas, BSME, and their team, who have been honored with a UF Innovations...

MBI Directors Discuss Alzheimer’s Research and Care

On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, UF Health hosted a webinar titled, “Alzheimer’s: Help for today and hope for tomorrow,” featuring Todd Golde, M.D., Ph.D., MBI director,...

UF Neuroscientists Find Sex Hormones May Influence Risk Taking, Impulsivity in Rats

New research by University of Florida neuroscientists suggests that male and female sex hormones may play differing roles in risk-taking inclinations and the ability to...

Local UF Professor Garners Third Professorship Award

Zhenli He, Ph.D., received a 2020 University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award, a term that will continue through 2023. The award is the third...

TearClear Appoints Robert Bailey to Board of Directors

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident client TearClear, a global ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, announces the appointment of industry veteran Robert Bailey to...

UF Startup Cannabix Working on a ‘Pot Breathalyzer’

With more states allowing some form of legal marijuana use, the race is on to develop a breath test that law enforcement can use to...

Using HSV Helper Viruses to Increase AAV Production

Recognizing the industry-wide need to improve adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector manufacturing, UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), has adopted...

The Key to Farming on Mars Might Be Breeding Parasitic Space Worms

The parasitic space worms are coming, and they’re ready to kill. No, it’s not the tagline for some Tremors in Space B-movie monster flick. Instead, it’s the...

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