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UF Geologist To Help Plan Potential NASA Mission

UF researcher Stephen Elardo is playing a vital role in planning a potential mission to the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin by helping determine which types and sizes of lunar samples should be collected.

UF Researchers Identify Safer Pathway for Pain Relief

UF researchers have helped identify a novel drug compound that selectively activates pain-altering receptors in the body, offering a potentially safer alternative to conventional pain medications.

Heidari Works to Create Tunable Lasers

UF researchers Elham Heidari, Ph.D., and her team published a paper in ACS Photonics on tunable lasers, earning selection for the Rising Stars in Photonics Virtual Special Issue.

$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.

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.

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