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UF Innovate | The Hub Named Mixed-Use Entrepreneurship Center of 2019

At its annual conference in Minnesota, the International Business Innovation Association named UF Innovate | The Hub the global Mixed-Use Entrepreneurship Center of the Year....

TAO Connect’s Online Therapy Finds New Niches

A partnership between UF startup TAO Connect and the University of Ottawa may be just the beginning of an expansion that will give the St....

Ology Bioservices Wins Two Department of Defense Awards Totaling More Than $135 Million

UF startup Ology Bioservices, Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced that the Department of Defense (DOD), through its Platforms for Rapid...

BSI Team Joins Forces With Oragenics in Search for New Antibiotics

A biophysics team led by Florida International University researchers Prem Chapagain and Bernard Gerstman has joined forces with UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident...

UF Startup Florida Insect Control Group Featured at University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, D.C.

University of Florida researchers behind Florida Insect Control Group, a pest control device company, originally intended to protect deployed military personnel from insect-borne diseases, shared...

Peerfit Nets $18 Million, Plus More Top Funding News for Tampa-Based Companies

Tampa-based health care company Peerfit, a UF startup, has secured $18 million in Series C funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city’s recent funding headlines. The...

Peerfit Receives $18 Million Investment to Expand Wellness Offerings

UF startup Peerfit has received an $18 million investment from private equity firm Virgo Investment Group, Palo Alto, California, opening the digital health company’s Series...

Banyan Biomarkers, Abbott Ink Deal for Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarkers

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Banyan Biomarkers announced that it has nonexclusively licensed its proprietary blood biomarkers of traumatic brain...

AGTC Announces Reaching Enrollment Milestones in Phase 1/2 Clinical Trials

UF startup Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases,...

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Brammer Bio in $1.7 Billion Gene-Therapy Deal

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said it is buying Alachua-based Brammer Bio for $1.7 billion in a move that would expand the lab-equipment company’s presence in...

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