Roozbeh Tabrizian Selected As Hastings Faculty Fellow
During the recent virtual meeting of the ECE External Advisory Board Meeting on April 23, 2020, professor and chair John Harris made an exciting announcement regarding the Alan Hastings Faculty Fellow. This year, in recognition of his superior work in the area of radiofrequency micro- and nano-electro-mechanical resonators and transducers, Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian was announced as the Alan Hastings […]
Otonomy and AGTC Present Preclinical Results for Gene Therapy Hearing Loss Program
Otonomy, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative therapeutics for neurotology, announced preclinical results from the company’s gene therapy collaboration with UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, […]
After Acquisition, Tampa Biotech Firm Looks Toward COVID-19 Vaccine
Serendipity is the word Alan Joslyn uses to describe the meeting and eventual acquisition of a Gainesville-based biotech firm. “It’s not every day all of a sudden a private company falls in your lap that’s working in COVID-19,” said Alan Joslyn, CEO of UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a leader in […]
Cannabix Technologies Develops Version 2.0 of THC Breath Analyzer
UF startup Cannabix Technologies Inc., developer of marijuana breathalyzer devices for law enforcement and the workplace, is pleased to report that the company has developed a new version of its THC Breath Analyzer (THCBA) and is preparing for additional testing with the device. The company engineers have updated several components in the THCBA and have […]
UF Scientist Uses Work Lessons to Succeed in New Home Working Environment
University of Florida scientist Christopher Vincent is used to working with the unknown to learn new grove management practices. As a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences plant physiologist, Vincent works to discover how citrus trees can thrive under stressful conditions. Now, during the coronavirus stay-at-home recommendations, he’s applying those skills in […]
What Are Asian Giant Hornets, and Are They Really Dangerous? 5 Questions Answered
According to recent press reports, two Asian giant hornets – a species not known to occur in North America – were found in northwest Washington state in late 2019, and a hornet colony was found and eliminated in British Columbia. Now scientists are trying to determine whether more of these large predatory insects are present in […]
Dr. Weihsuan “Jenny” Lo-Ciganic Wins UF Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
The University of Florida has honored Weihsuan “Jenny” Lo-Ciganic, Ph.D., M.S., M.S.Pharm., with the 2020 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors — one of the university’s top awards for a junior faculty member. Lo-Ciganic serves as an assistant professor of pharmaceutical outcomes and policy in the UF College of Pharmacy. As a pharmacoepidemiologist, her research interests involve drug safety, […]
Novel Peer-to-Peer Car Charging System Proposes to Automate, Mobilize EV Charging
While electric vehicles (EVs) are a critical part of envisioning a future without the internal combustion engine (ICE), there is still much work to be done before EVs are a practical means of long-distance travel in the United States. Current U.S. infrastructure and limited battery capacities have proved to be the limiting factors. A novel […]
UF MSE Researchers Discover Potential Pathway for Bone Growth
The discovery came while evaluating a synthetic polymer substrate as a potential cell-growth platform. The cells were performing modestly on the new surface, but to get them to both attach to the synthetic material and actually thrive they typically need at least one of a special set of proteins to also be present, namely fibronectin, […]
University of Florida Researchers Find Promising New Treatment in Fight to Beat Citrus Greening
University of Florida researchers have discovered another possible solution to the plague of citrus greening that is impacting Florida’s citrus groves. This new information adds to the growing portfolio of knowledge that UF scientists are amassing to fight the disease. Led by UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences microbiology and cell science professor Claudio […]