LightPath Technologies Receives Highly Innovative Design Award From the Sterling Council (PR Newswire)
UF startup LightPath Technologies, Inc., announced that it has been awarded the Highly Innovative Design Award in the 2026 Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence (SMBE) Award evaluation process conducted by The Sterling Council.
UF Scientist Develops Safer Gene Therapy To Restore Vision (Gainesville Sun)
UF researcher Dr. Shannon Boye has developed a safer gene therapy now in clinical trials that is already helping patients with inherited eye diseases regain vision.
The Food on Artemis II Is Surprisingly Tasty—but It Still Won’t Be Good Enough for Mars (National Geographic)
UF researchers Anna-Lisa Paul and Rob Ferl demonstrated that Arabidopsis thaliana can grow in lunar soil collected during the Apollo missions, marking a major step toward sustainable food production for future space exploration.
FDA Grants De Novo Classification to Neuropacs™, a First-in-Class AI-Based MRI Diagnostic Aid for Parkinsonian Syndromes (Business Wire)
UF startup neuropacs™ Corp. received FDA De Novo classification for its diffusion MRI–based software designed to assist clinicians in evaluating Parkinsonian syndromes.
OUP: Meet the VCs | Food and Agriculture Webinar
The Venture Capital firm OUP hosted the “Meet the VCs: Food and Agriculture” webinar. The speakers provided an overview of the 2025 AgTech area investment and exit data, observations on the various market sectors within AgTech, and key takeaways and trends within the data. For anyone who could not attend or would like to access […]
Pheronym Awarded $378,000 NSF Phase IIB Supplemental Funding To Accelerate Commercialization and Scale Manufacturing (EIN Presswire)
UF Innovate | Accelerate alum Pheronym, an ag-biotech pest control company, announced it has been awarded $378,000 in National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase IIB supplemental funding.
UF Diabetes Researchers Test Therapy To Prevent Immune Attack Against Insulin-Producing Cells (UF Health)
A UF study led by Edward A. Phelps, as a senior author, outlines a new strategy to potentially slow the progression of Type 1 diabetes using a drug that acts directly on insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.
UF Scientists Successfully Grow Plants in Moon Soil From Apollo 11 (WCJB TV20)
UF researchers are advancing the possibility of growing food on the moon by successfully cultivating plants in lunar soil collected during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission.
Tech Tuesday: University of Florida’s College of Engineering Researches Elusive “Ghost Particles” (WCJB TV20)
In this week’s Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate highlights research led by Andreas Enqvist’s LOKE Lab exploring elusive neutrinos to advance fundamental science.
UF Researcher Finds Way To Boost Protective Brain Enzyme After Stroke (UF Health)
A UF researcher used the HiPerGator supercomputer to identify a drug candidate that boosts the brain’s natural protective enzyme, offering a promising new approach to treating ischemic stroke.