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Peerfit Prepares for Medicare Expansion with Peerfit Move, Recruits Industry Veteran

UF startup Peerfit, the first and only digital health company to work with employers to fully fund fitness experiences for their employees, announced that healthcare...

3D Historic Preservation and Landscape Architecture – A Powerful Combination

Thomas J. Elmore, a professional landscape designer, needed 3D data capture sensor and visualization software that would satisfy his professional needs. Part of his solution...

Breathtec Announces Name Change to Algernon Pharmaceuticals

UF startup Breathtec Biomedical Inc. is pleased to announce that as a result of the strength of the data from its Nash Pharmaceuticals pre-clinical research program,...

Automated System Would Deliver Chemicals to Help Ward Off Citrus Greening

Imagine using a robotic arm to grip and puncture the trunk of a citrus tree to deliver chemicals into the vascular parts of the plant,...

HealthSteps & AMA Form Data Model Collaboration to Support Integrated Health Model Initiative

UF Innovate | The Hub startup HealthSteps, an emerging mobile health company offering innovative digital solutions to improve health services delivery and clinical research, announced...

UF/IFAS Scientist to Work with Team Developing New Greening-Tolerant Citrus

When Nian Wang pieces together sequences of genes, he hopes to make citrus varieties that are more tolerant to the deadly disease known as greening,...

How to Lead by Example and Share the Power With Peerfit CEO Ed Buckley

Leadership means serving the people below you. That’s true leadership that I teach to our department heads and anyone in a leadership position at Peerfit....

The Making of PX-80: the World’s First Handheld LiDAR Scanner with Color Data

UF startup Paracosm has been at the forefront of SLAM-based 3D-mapping since the company’s founding in 2013. In the ensuing years, they’ve racked up an...

Gene Therapy Offers Hope to People With Achromatopsia, an Inherited Retinal Eye Disease

For years, people with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), such as achromatopsia (ACHM), have been undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or delayed seeking genetic testing to confirm their diagnosis...

Oragenics, Inc. Receives Further Validation for Lantibiotic Compound OG716

UF startup Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis (“OM”), announced the publication...

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