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Peerfit Move Available For Select Medicare Advantage Plans Via Alignment Healthcare

Alignment Healthcare, a mission-based Medicare Advantage insurance company founded in 2013, announced that it has partnered with UF startup Peerfit, the market leader in connecting...

‘Fine Tuning’ Certain Cells May Prevent Gut Inflammation, Researchers Find

Keeping the intestinal tract in balance requires a delicate dialogue between gut microbes and the body. When that gets disrupted, inflammation and intestinal damage can...

OxThera Presents Full 24-Month Data for Oxabact® in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1 (PH1) Patients With ESRD

UF startup OxThera AB, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of people with Primary Hyperoxaluria (PH), presented data from a 24-month interim...

UF Study Finds FDA Strategy Cuts Fetal Exposure to Harmful Immunosuppressive Drug, but Risks Remain

University of Florida researchers determined an FDA-approved program deters pregnant women from starting a potentially harmful immunosuppressive drug. But for women taking the drug, the...

UF Researchers Earn Grant to Test New Form of DBS to Treat Essential Tremor

University of Florida neuroscientists will test the effectiveness of a new motion-activated type of deep brain stimulation (DBS) aimed at improving treatment for patients with...

Nematodes in Space on the ‘Future of Agriculture’ Podcast

Dr. Fatma Kaplan and Cameron Schiller, founders of UF Innovate alumni startup Pheronym, an agricultural biotech company that provides safe, non-toxic, and innovative solutions to...

UF Innovate Featured on Florida Trend’s October Issue

Biotech innovation and entrepreneurship are changing the game in the ‘Greater Gainesville’ area. That’s why UF Innovate, the University of Florida Office of Research commercialization...

AGTC Announces Stargardt Disease as its Second Preclinical Ophthalmology Program

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus...

Local Crowdfunding Company Announces New Services to Bridge the Justice Gap

UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Personal Justice, a nonprofit fundraising & digital marketing consultancy firm, has announced the launch of its new platform...

UF Health Researchers Launch Trial Involving Gut Bacteria’s Role in Type 1 Diabetes

Graciela Lorca, Ph.D., was part of a University of Florida Health research team that discovered about a decade ago that something was amiss in the...

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