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Sara Dagen

Tabrizian Receives 2020–21 Khargonekar Award

Assistant Professor and Alan Hastings Faculty Fellow Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian is the recipient of the 2020-21 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award for the most outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall.

Florida Study Shows Cold Chain Importance for Strawberries

Right about now, if you eat a Florida strawberry, odds are it’s going to taste oh-so-good. That’s no accident. Strawberries are in season, and those you see at the grocery store should be shipped and stocked at the right temperature, says a University of Florida scientist.

New OxThera/Oxabact US Patent Granted

UF startup OxThera AB, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of people with Primary Hyperoxaluria (PH), announces that a new US patent has been granted for its product candidate Oxabact and a method for the treatment or prevention of an oxalate-related disorder, such as hyperoxaluria.

Gilbert Receives Social Impact Award From ACM Sigchi

Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., the Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor, was recently named a recipient of the 2021 SIGCHI Social Impact Award. Dr. Gilbert, the chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was 1 of 3 people chosen to receive the award this year.