UF Startup Among Small Drones Vendors for Federal Procurement
The Defense Innovation Unit has announced that starting September 2020, agencies can use the General Services Administration Schedule to buy from five drone manufacturing companies that were made available through the Blue sUAS program. UF startup Altavian, a Gainesville-based company, is among the approved vendors along with Vantage Robotics, Parrot, Teal, and Skydio. Learn more about UF Startup Among Small Drones Vendors […]
Five Questions for Michael S. Okun, M.D.
Michael S. Okun, M.D. is chair of Neurology, Adelaide Lackner professor, and executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He received his M.D. with honors from the University of Florida and, subsequently, was fellowship-trained at Emory University before establishing the movement disorders program at […]
UF/IFAS Scientists to Shed Light on Aquatic Symbiosis With a Squid
The Hawaiian bobtail squid is a glowing example of aquatic symbiosis. It stands out as a unique cephalopod that lives with a light organ run by a luminescent bacterium, or microbes. The bacterium allows the squid to use light as camouflage against predators. A team of researchers has received a $550,000 grant by the Gordon […]
UF Researcher Earns National Recognition Early in Her Career
She’s early in her career, but Yu Wang, a University of Florida food scientist, is making great strides in her research. Recognizing Wang’s work, the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division (AGFD) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) recently named her a fellow. Wang, a food chemist with the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences […]
Ology Bioservices Wins $106M Army Contract for COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Support
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), was awarded a $106,300,002 firm-fixed-price contract to reserve production capacity of approximately 186,840,000 doses to satisfy an urgent need for domestic aseptic fill and finish manufacturing of critical vaccines and therapeutics in support of […]
UF Named New Member of Prestigious Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of neurosurgery in 2016, he had a big goal for the university: become a member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. On July 16, 2020, Gururangan achieved that objective when UF was named one of four new PBTC member institutions along with […]
UF Professor Earns National Award for Innovative Research
Nian Wang, a professor at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, has been recognized by the American Phytopathological Society (APS) at its 2020 annual meeting. Wang received the Ruth Allen Award, which honors people who have made an outstanding, innovative research contribution that has changed or has the potential to change, […]
UF Neuroscientist Earns NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award
A UF neuroscientist has earned a $1.86 million NIH award to further his lab’s research into the actin cytoskeleton, an integral component of cells that controls their ability to divide, move and communicate. Eric A. Vitriol, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Medicine’s department of anatomy & cell biology, received the Maximizing […]
Nvidia Built Its Selene Supercomputer for Coronavirus Research in Just Three Weeks
Nvidia Corp., an artificial intelligence company co-founded by UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering alumnus Chris Malachowsky, managed to build Selene, the world’s seventh-fastest supercomputer, in just under three weeks. Selene is based on the DGX A100 systems also used by the Argonne National Laboratory to research ways to stop the coronavirus. The Selene supercomputer has been deployed to tackle […]
Dietary Nitrate Can Help Improve Condition of COVID-19 Patients
As part of the high-risk groups, most elderly patients that contract coronavirus are placed in intensive care with a ventilation machine. A new study from the University of Florida revealed that dietary nitrate supplementation could potentially improve diaphragm function. Several studies have revealed that dietary nitrate can enhance physical performance by increasing blood flow and improving […]