Sid Martin Biotech Client Company Alchem Laboratories Expands Screening and Clinical Trial Manufacturing Capabilities
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech, the leading biotechnology incubator at the University of Florida, is pleased to announce client company Alchem Laboratories Corporation, a contract research organization focused on process development and manufacturing of fine organic chemicals and drug substances, is expanding its screening and clinical trial capabilities. Merrie Shaw, Assistant Director of UF […]
Paul A. Gulig: Seek Facts on Vaccines From Reputable Sources
University of Florida researcher, Paul Gulig, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, shares his opinion on The Gainesville Sun imploring readers to seek truth and fact from reputable sources when it comes to vaccines. Learn more about Paul A. Gulig: Seek Facts on Vaccines From Reputable Sources.
Twelve Leading Medical Centers Unite to Form Brain Tumor Research Collaborative
The UF Health-led ReMission Alliance Against Brain Tumors announced the names of twelve partner institutions from across the U.S. and Canada that are teaming up to develop novel treatments to vastly improve quality of life and long-term survival for patients fighting malignant brain tumors. Internationally recognized neuro-oncologists and brain tumor investigators from the twelve partner […]
Chlamydia’s Covert Reproduction
UF researchers have resolved a two-decade-old mystery centered upon how the bacteria chlamydia divide and reproduce. Newly published results from the lab of Anthony Maurelli, a microbiologist in UF’s College of Public Health and Health Professions and the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI), reveal that, how these parasitic pathogens replicate, diverges from a nearly universal norm. […]
AGTC Announces Completion of Enrollment in the Two Highest Dose Groups of Its Ongoing Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial in Patients With X-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum 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, announced that it has completed enrollment in the two highest dose groups of its Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating the safety […]
Bondtech and Slice Engineering Join Forces to Create and Launch an Extended Range of Print-Head Solutions for the Desktop and Industrial 3D Printing Space
Bondtech, a 3D printing company based in Sweden, and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Slice Engineering, a design and engineering company focused on developing cutting edge technologies for the additive manufacturing (3D printing) industry, have signed an agreement for strategic co-operation on product development. The aim of this agreement is sharing the pool […]
Entomologist to Present History of Vegetable Pests, Points to Collaboration
About the time Hugh Smith was a graduate student in entomology and nematology at the University of Florida, his academic department was housed on the top floor of McCarty Hall in Gainesville. Steinmetz Hall, the department’s current location, was a construction site. Now, about 30 years later, Smith is a vegetable entomologist for UF/IFAS, and […]
Alachua County-Based Biotech Company Develops Skincare Products Out of Exosomes
A biotechnology company based in North Central Florida is developing health products that could help patients with their skincare. EriVan Bio’s lab is located at UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech Incubator in Alachua, Florida. For Nasser Nassiri, co-founder and CEO of EriVan, this lab is a place where ideas can end up helping people […]
UF/IFAS Highlights Precision Agriculture During Gator Day at the Capitol
As orange and blue blanketed the Capitol for Gator Day, folks from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) presented about advancements in agriculture technology to the Senate Agriculture Committee. IFAS also provided free samples of various oranges and orange juice, along with a new grapefruit that has been taste-tested to […]
Alchem Laboratories Announces Expansion of Its Screening and Clinical Trial Manufacturing Capabilities
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech member Alchem Laboratories Corporation, a contract manufacturing organization dedicated to excellence in custom synthesis, announced the expansion of its screening and clinical trial manufacturing capabilities through the construction of Building 3 in Alachua Florida. The new building, located near buildings 1 and 2 planned for completion in 2020, closed […]