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Unlocking Your Business Potential

Maybe you’re considering your company's +1 or more, knowing it’s time for expansion. If so, now is the time to make significant changes to reach your business’s potential. In today’s hack, UF Innovate | Accelerate Director Karl LaPan will tell you how.

BioMérieux Receives CE Mark for Biomarker Assay for Mild TBI

BioMérieux, which signed an agreement in 2017 with Banyan Biomarkers to commercialize its TBI assay, has obtained the CE Mark for its assay to detect two biomarkers associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

Tech Tuesday: Gene Therapy

In this week’s Tech Tuesday, we meet Dr. Shannon Boye, a researcher at the University of Florida, who is working to use gene therapy to restore or improve vision for people with genetic disorders causing poor eyesight or even blindness.

ID-Cap™ System Powers Historic HIV Digital Pill Study

etectRx announces record-breaking use of the ID-Cap™ System, utilized in University of Colorado’s HIV treatment study.

Asadi Works to Make X-Ray Imagery Less Noisy

Current X-ray machines often produce images with significant noise and poor resolution when dealing with intricately shaped parts. A newly funded NSF project aims to change that. UF's Dr. Navid Asadi received $2.6M of funding from the National Science Foundation for “Track 2 Acquisition of a Novel Performance-Driven 3D Imaging System for Extremely Noisy Objects (NPIX).”

Project NextGen Selects Initial Vaccine Candidates and Awards Over $500 Million to Advance Development of Vaccines and Therapeutics

BARDA is awarding over $240 million to support Project NextGen clinical studies for COVID-19 vaccines, including investments in cold-chain sample management, genomic sequencing, and increased central laboratory capacity for sample testing. UF Innovate | Accelerate client BioInfoExperts is among the recipients. BARDA provided $4 million to the startup to provide genomic sequencing of COVID-19.

UF Leaders Launch Florida Semiconductor Institute To Expand Domestic Chip Technology Research

Following the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, University of Florida and state leaders are partnering to expand semiconductor research throughout the United States.

Florida Semiconductor Institute to Help Lead State in Critical Chips Sector

The University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering announced today the establishment of the Florida Semiconductor Institute, a campus- and state-wide coordinating hub to provide intellectual and technological leadership for semiconductors in the 21st Century.

NCI U01 Grant Funds Study Exploring Medical Marijuana in Breast Cancer Treatment

With a five-year $3.2 million U01 award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a team of researchers from the UF Health Cancer Center and the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center will study the benefits and harms of medical marijuana in breast cancer patients.

Tech Tuesday: LPRC

In this Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate host Melanie Morón introduces us to Dr. Read Hayes, the director of LPRC, a company here in Gainesville working with major retail corporations to detect and prevent theft, fraud, and violence.

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