Oxidien Pharmaceuticals Receives High Recognition at RESI Conference in Partnership With Women in Bio
UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Oxidien Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company mitigating kidney disease by treating secondary hyperoxaluria, announced that its compelling investment opportunity was recognized by conference attendees casting their votes for the company in the Innovation Challenge. The votes cast for Oxidien placed the company in the top three in the impressive […]
Department of Defense Awards Ology Bioservices Contract to Advance Anti-Botulinum Neurotoxin Monoclonal Antibodies
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced it has been awarded a contract to advance the development of a cocktail of anti-botulinum neurotoxin monoclonal antibodies (mAb) by the Department of Defense (DOD) through the Joint Science and Technology Office of […]
UF Health Awarded $1 Million Grant to Provide Pediatric Telehealth Services to Underserved Patients
The University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of pediatrics has been awarded a nearly $1 million federal grant to expand telemedicine services and equipment among underserved and vulnerable populations. The $967,957 award from the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program will be used to acquire an array of monitoring and diagnostic equipment, including tablet […]
This Is How the Spanish Camera That Observes the Earth From the Space Station Works
About 500 kilometers away from Earth, a camera captures images in the Japanese module of the International Space Station. It is the first designed in Spain to be put into orbit. But the most important thing is that it is the only one dedicated to the observation of our planet that has an accuracy of […]
How to Create a COVID-19 Vaccine
Alan Joslyn Ph.D. president and CEO of UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis, speaks with James Di Virgilio, Radio Cade podcast co-host, about COVID-19 vaccine challenges and explore Oragenics journey from idea generation to COVID-19 […]
Museums Preserve Clues That Can Help Scientists Predict and Analyze Future Pandemics
Florida Museum of Natural History curator and distinguished professor Pamela Soltis, Ph.D., explains in The Conversation how she, along with colleagues from across the U.S. and in six other countries, identified a largely untapped resource for predicting future pandemics: natural history collections in museums around the world. These collections preserve specimens of animals, plants and […]
FICS Research Receives $7.8M to Help Make On-Chip Security Pervasive
The Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research has announced a collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a program called Automated Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS). Leading electronic design automation company Synopsys will serve as a prime contractor on the program. The $7.8M grant, part of the DARPA Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI), […]
UF, Impact Florida Launch Analysis on How Coronavirus Pandemic Impacted Education
The University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning announced that it is teaming with Impact Florida to offer an analysis of how public and private K-12 schools across the Sunshine State were impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The project has earned some major backing including $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation […]
Something’s in the Water
David Kaplan, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment (ESSIE) within the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, along with a team of scientists, wrote an amicus curiae brief for the U.S. Supreme Court about a case regarding the Clean Water Act (CWA) that will have a […]
Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation Releases Composite Study
The Florida Recycling Partnership Foundation has commissioned its first study to more accurately determine the amount of contamination in the recycled materials being collected. Dr. Tim Townsend and the Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida (UF) conducted the research on the current and historic composition of recycled materials at materials recovery […]