Gilbert Creates inLine Ticketing System to Lower Health Risk When Voting
As people across the country head to the polls, a concern on many minds is how to stay safe while voting. With the COVID-19 pandemic surging nationwide, what can election officials do to ensure everyone has the ability to vote without risking their health? Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and […]
Todd M. Brusko, Ph.D., Named Scientific Director of the UF Diabetes Institute
Todd M. Brusko, Ph.D., associate professor for UF Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, has been named Scientific Director of the UF Diabetes Institute (UFDI). Dr. Brusko joins the senior leadership team of the UFDI under its director Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., pediatric medical director Desmond Schatz, MD, and adult medical director Kenneth Cusi, MD. […]
Pheronym Milestones Are Recognized by Society of Invertebrate Pathology
UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, a bio-ag-tech pest control company, has been selected as Research Highlights in the past two years by the Society of Invertebrate Pathology (SIP), Division of Nematodes for the company’s technical milestones. The paper “Conspecific and Heterospecific Pheromones Stimulate Dispersal of Entomopathogenic […]
New Study Shows Common Diabetes Drug Improves Symptoms in Genetic Form of ALS in Mice
University of Florida neuroscientists, Laura Ranum, Ph.D., and Tao Zu, Ph.D., showed in a mouse-model study that metformin, a widely prescribed drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat Type 2 diabetes, reduces levels of specific mutant proteins central to the most common genetic form of ALS and frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, […]
UF Startup and Academics Find Path to Powerful Analog AI
Engineers have been chasing a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that could drastically lower the energy required to do typical AI things like recognize words and images. This analog form of machine learning does one of the key mathematical operations of neural networks using the physics of a circuit instead of digital logic. But one […]
The Importance of Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s: UF Neuroscientists Explain the Recent Findings
University of Florida neuroscientists Steven DeKosky, MD, and Todd Golde, MD, Ph.D., announced new findings on a blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on July 29, 2020. The test showed extremely high accuracy – around 90% – for detecting chemicals in the blood that are specific for Alzheimer’s. Those […]
Gainesville Startup Works to Find Lost Money
A Gainesville startup is aiming to capitalize on a little-known tool offered by state governments: unclaimed property searches, which reveal forgotten funds that are held by state treasuries until the rightful owner claims them. In 2015, Chris Prompovitch, CEO of UF Innovate | The Hub alum ClaimFound, came up with the idea when his friend […]
UF Health Surgeons Perform Historic Double-Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Survivor
A man who battled back from COVID-19 only to face a life-threatening crisis when his lungs began to fail has become the first person in the Southeast to receive a double-lung transplant after beating the coronavirus, thanks to the nationally ranked lung transplant team at UF Health Shands Hospital. The patient, who is in his […]
UF/IFAS Researchers Make Strides in Saving Florida Avocado Industry
As consumers commemorate National Avocado Day on July 31, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences scientists keep a steady pace of lab and field work for the Florida avocado industry as they fight laurel wilt. Detected in Georgia in 2002, laurel wilt’s devastating effects were observed for the first time in […]
UF/IFAS Engineer Earns National Honor for Work in Micro-Irrigation
With his compact-bed geometry design, Sanjay Shukla has helped growers around the world save on water, fertilizer and money. In Shukla’s design, taller, narrow beds of soil replace shorter, wider ones. Current beds tend to be 3-feet wide and 6-8 inches in height. Shukla developed beds that are 16 to 24 inches wide and 10 […]