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Pheronym Granted Patent for Ag Bio-Remediation Breakthrough

UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, an Ag-biotech pest control company, has been granted its patent for...

UF Chemists Target Toxic Algae Blooms in Florida’s Lakes and Rivers

As large blooms of toxic blue-green algae have become an annual phenomenon in Florida’s freshwater lakes and rivers, as well as other places worldwide, University...

UF Partners on $26M Grant to Produce More Crops With Less Water and Energy

University of Florida is partnering on a $26 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop new technologies and systems that will help farmers produce more food...

UF/IFAS Scientist Named Fellow of American Phytopathological Society

Working at her lab and fields at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Natalia Peres diagnoses and helps manage diseases that might otherwise...

UF Researchers Discover Molecular Address System That May Aid Gut Health

Building on previous findings that show a specific protein is associated with gut health, University of Florida researchers have discovered an intricate molecular mechanism that...

Five Questions for Michael S. Okun, M.D.

Michael S. Okun, M.D. is chair of Neurology, Adelaide Lackner professor, and executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University...

UF Startup Among Small Drones Vendors for Federal Procurement

The Defense Innovation Unit has announced that starting September 2020, agencies can use the General Services Administration Schedule to buy from five drone manufacturing companies that were...

Oragenics Signs Process Development and Manufacturing Agreement With Avid Bioservices for Coronavirus Vaccine

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., and Avid Bioservices, Inc., announced that they have entered into a process development and drug...

etectRx™ Announces New CEO

UF Innovate | The Hub resident company etectRx®, Inc., a privately-held digital health company, announced the appointment of pharma veteran Valerie Sullivan as its next president and CEO. In late 2019, the company...

UF Researcher Earns National Recognition Early in Her Career

She’s early in her career, but Yu Wang, a University of Florida food scientist, is making great strides in her research. Recognizing Wang’s work, the...

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