Wertheim Foundation provides lead gift of $100 million to UF Scripps
The University of Florida today announced that the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation has provided $100 million — the largest gift from an individual donor in university history — to elevate the stature of UF Scripps as one of the world’s leading forces in biomedical research and to advance the leading-edge work of faculty at the campus in Jupiter, Florida.
Here’s How AI Could Bring Better Fruit to Your Table
Researchers at the University of Florida envision a quicker method: exploring the natural variations in plant genetics using artificial intelligence. The applications extend far beyond blueberries, a growing sector of Florida’s $182.6 billion agriculture industry. Their brainchild, the AI Connoisseur, would not only give Florida farms an edge, but make healthy food more palatable to more people, bringing varieties with heirloom-quality flavor within everyone’s reach. All they’d have to do is teach a computer to taste.
TearClear Announces Positive Topline Results From Clear Phase 3 Study for the Treatment of Glaucoma
TearClear, an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company that transforms trusted drugs into branded best-in-class therapies, announced that the company’s will file a NDA with the FDA on their lead product. This product will offer patients the first and only means of delivering preservative-free doses of latanoprost from conventional multi-dose bottles.
$12.6 Million Department of Energy Grant Funds Advanced Quantum Research Center
The Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials at the University of Florida has received a $12.6 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue its work developing next-generation quantum materials for advanced applications in computing and energy.
This Geneticist’s Goal: Cure the Disease That Runs in His Family
Dr. Eric Wang has always been interested in understanding how biological systems function, but in part entered this field and joined the team at UF because he has family members affected by myotonic dystrophy. He is personally motivated to better understand DM and related diseases, and to find treatments.
Food Advertised as ‘Scallops’ in Some Instances Are Totally Different Fish, Inside Edition Investigation Finds
an Inside Edition investigative report, with the help of UF startup and UF Innovate | Accelerate graduate Applied Food Technologies, found samples of seafood advertised to be “scallops” at restaurants across the United States to be anything but.
UF Researchers Find New Sugar Substitutes in Citrus That Could Change Food and Beverage Industry
Finding natural, non-caloric sugar substitutes is desirable but challenging. However, researchers at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have made a breakthrough — discovering new, natural sweeteners in citrus for the first time.
New HiPerGator Simulations “Solve Mother Nature” To Address Real-World Problems
In one of the most intensive uses yet of the University of Florida’s HiPerGator supercomputer, UF engineers have faithfully reproduced the turbulence and complexity of hot air rising along a wall — a previously impossible simulation with applications in home fire safety and heating and cooling.
How Members of the UF Community Represent the Core Values
University of Florida Core Values Week strives to make the university community a premier university in the state, nation and world to look to for leadership.
UF Health Researcher Aims To Create AI Algorithm To Help Map Human Body’s Cells
Recently hired UF College of Medicine faculty member Pinaki Sarder, Ph.D., is leading a project where researchers at UF Health are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm to be used by scientists around the nation who are mapping out the entire human body at the single-cell level.
