Gene Therapy Offers Hope to People With Achromatopsia, an Inherited Retinal Eye Disease (Fat Pitch Financials)
UF startup AGTC, a UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate, is recruiting for two Phase I/II clinical trials for ACHM caused by mutations in the CNGB3 or the CHGA3 gene. For years, people with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), such as achromatopsia (ACHM), have been undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or delayed seeking genetic testing to confirm their […]
Oragenics, Inc. Announces Publication Detailing the Development of Blueprints for Designing a New Class of Anti-Infectives (BusinessWire)
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alumni company Oragenics, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company, announced the publication of a research paper titled “Blueprints for the rational design of therapeutic mutacin 1140 variants,” in Chemical Biology & Drug Design (CBDD). The study, which can be accessed via https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cbdd.13365 focused on structure-activity relationships of the lantibiotic […]
Axogen Expands Addressable Market Estimate to $2.7B (Mass Device)
UF startup AxoGen, a graduate of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech, updated the company’s nerve repair technology and business strategies for the coming years, saying that it believes that the total addressable market for peripheral nerve repair has grown from earlier estimates of $2.2 billion up to $2.7 billion. The Alachua-based company said that […]
RTI Surgical Announces HealthPartners’ Positive Coverage Decision for Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion Surgery (Spinal News International)
UF startup RTI Surgical, a UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum, has announced that HealthPartners, the largest consumer governed non-profit healthcare organisation in the USA, issued a positive coverage decision for minimally invasive sacroiliac (SI) joint fusion surgery. This decision expands access to RTI’s SImmetry System for HealthPartners members considering treatment for SI joint […]
UF Innovate | Tech Licensing Announces Another Successful Partnership with Portfolio Company Entrinsic Health Solutions Inc. (UF News)
University of Florida startup Entrinsic Health Solutions Inc. (EHS), an innovative health sciences company, has entered into a partnership that provides for a worldwide commercial license and supply agreement for enterade®, an amino acid-based, glucose-free, electrolyte solution designed for oncology and gastrointestinal (GI) disease patients. “We are excited about this partnership,” stated Dr. Sadasivan Vidyasagar, […]
AGTC Posts Quarterly Income (Healio)
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation reported a net income of $1.2 million for the first quarter of its fiscal year compared with a net loss of $1.4 million in the same quarter of 2017. General and administrative expenses decreased from $3.7 million to $3.2 million, while […]
OxThera AB is Being Granted US Patent for Oxalobacter Secretagogues (PR Newswire)
UF startup OxThera AB, a privately-held Stockholm-based biopharmaceutical company, announced a granted US patent on Oxalobacter formigenes secretagogues. OxThera AB, a spinout of Ixion, is a UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alumnus. Oxabact®, a formulation of highly concentrated lyophilized Oxalobacter formigenes, is being developed by OxThera AB as a potential treatment for patients with […]
Banyan Biomarkers Receives Contract by U.S. Department of Defense for Banyan BTI™ (BusinessWire)
UF startup Banyan Biomarkers, Inc., a pioneer in developing biomarkers for mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to procure the Banyan Brain Trauma Indicator® (Banyan BTI™). Banyan Biomarkers is a graduate of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech. The Banyan BTI is a diagnostic […]
Axogen’s Avance Nerve Graft Receives Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy Designation (BioFlorida)
AxoGen, Inc., a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or discontinuity to peripheral nerves, reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to Avance® Nerve Graft. AxoGen is a UF startup and graduate of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech. The […]
Forward Focused (Business Florida 2019 – The Regions)
North Central Florida — where innovative companies are born and workforce talent thrives — is home to the University of Florida, the nation’s 8th ranked public university, 12th most prolific patent earner worldwide, recipient of a record $837.6 million in research funding in FY 2018 and a catalyst for economic development. Many who were drawn […]