As Peach Harvest Begins, UF Scientists Find Rootstocks That Survive Flooding
Peach growers and University of Florida scientists are always concerned about flooding because it can damage peach trees permanently and cause trees to die. Ali Sarkhosh, a UF/IFAS assistant professor of horticultural sciences, is searching for flooding tolerance for peaches before a storm wipes out any farms.
AGTC Licenses Promoter Technology to SparingVision SAS
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, announced a licensing agreement that provides its proprietary cone-specific promoter technology to SparingVision SAS, a genomic medicine company developing vision-saving treatments for ocular diseases.
SATLANTIS Receives Investment From Two Spanish Companies
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client SATLANTIS, a company specializing in high-performance optical loads for observation of the Earth for small satellites, has had the entry into its shareholding by Enagás, the main natural gas transporter in Spain, after a capital increase of 14 million euros.
AI May Help UF Researchers Identify Crop-Destroying Nematodes
Parasitic nematodes cause $125 billion in agricultural damage around the world each year, but University of Florida scientists hope to alleviate some of that destruction.
UF Researchers Say Marine Products Show Promising Future In Medical Advancements
Many drug research efforts occurring at UF are focused on marine and natural products that will lead to advancements in medications and treatments for cancers. Dr. Hendrik Luesch was involved in a recent discovery of a marine compound off the east coast of Florida named gatorbulin-1 that could potentially be used in the fight against cancer; this discovery highlights the importance of searching the ocean’s biodiversity.
Morphogenesis’ Skin Cancer Vaccine Gets FDA ‘Fast Track’
Tampa company Morphogenesis, a UF startup, has received a “fast track” designation for its skin cancer vaccination from the United States Food and Drug Administration.
‘One Billion Doses On Day One’: Vaccine Company Claims World-Changing Innovation
Curious about what motivates the company that just acquired UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Ology Bioservices? Anger at the length of time it is taking to get vaccines to fight Covid. This story in Forbes is a picture of Resilience, a new player in the town of Alachua.
AI Model To Hasten Clinical Trials, Boost Medical Decision-Making, Thanks to UF Health, NVIDIA
Researchers with the University of Florida’s academic health center — UF Health — announced today that they have collaborated with NVIDIA researchers to create GatorTron™, an artificial intelligence transformer natural language processing model intended to accelerate research and medical decision-making by extracting insights from massive volumes of clinical data with unprecedented speed and clarity.
UF Health Study Will Examine Drugs To Treat Coronavirus UK Variant
Researchers say they aren't surprised by the coronavirus's ability to mutate, but they are working on ways to stop the spread. UF Associate Professor of Pathology David A. Ostrov's discovery about the UK variant has identified 40 candidate drugs that could serve as additional tools in the fight against COVID.
TeamedOn and AGTC Announce a Licensing Agreement Advancing X-Linked Retinoschisis Gene Therapy Program
AGTC will provide TeamedOn with the clinical trial material, pre-clinical and clinical data generated for the development of AGTC’s investigational intravitreal gene therapy candidate, rAAV2tYF-CB-hRS1
