Oragenics Making ‘Great Progress’ Enrolling Patients in Oral Mucositis Clinical Trial
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of novel antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis, announced that they are making great progress enrolling patients in their clinical trial. “We are primarily enrolling patients in our oral mucositis program AG013 and […]
Jackson Streeter to Direct UF Innovate | Ventures
In March of 2019, Brammer Bio, a University of Florida spinout company, sold for $1.7 billion to Thermo Fisher Scientific. The story of Brammer is a model of how UF can foster commercialization of research, and UF Innovate | Ventures plans to do just that. “Our hope is that with the new Ventures group and […]
GatorWings Wins DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that GatorWings, a team of undergraduate students, Ph.D. candidates, and professors from the University of Florida are the winners of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) – a three-year competition to unlock the true potential of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum with artificial intelligence (AI). SC2’s final 10 […]
UF Ranks Among the ‘Best Global Universities,’ According to U.S. News
Several Florida schools are among the top 500 Best Global Universities in a ranking released by U.S. News & World Report. Leading the state and ranking at 105th globally was the University of Florida, followed by Florida State University (190), the University of Miami (235) and the University of South Florida (310). The University of […]
Neuroimmunology Expert Featured at Neuroscience 2019 Press Conference
Malú Tansey, Ph.D., director of UF’s Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, was among a select group of experts to present during a press conference at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual conference in Chicago. Participants explained their research on gut-brain communication via the immune system that may help in the development of novel treatments […]
UF Researchers Develop First-Ever Protocol for Treating Rare Infection in Dogs
While participating in a summer research project in Thailand in 2018, a University of Florida graduate student and his mentor discovered a rarely diagnosed and often fatal infection, known as melioidosis, in a dog, and helped veterinarians develop a protocol to successfully treat the animal. One year later, the 11-year-old Pomeranian mixed-breed dog continues to […]
New Fertilizer Technology May Help Farmers Reduce Nitrogen Load
In the Suwannee Valley, farmers are diligently searching for solutions, or Best Management Practices (BMPs), to efficiently use fertilizers in crop production. At the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center – Suwannee Valley (UF/IFAS NFREC-SV), a team led by Bob Hochmuth, UF/IFAS Extension regional specialized agent for vegetable crops and assistant center director, has […]
UF Researcher Receives Grant to Support Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Research
Bayer announced recipients of the inaugural Pulmonary Hypertension Accelerated Bayer (PHAB) Awards, a U.S.-based research grant program created to support clinical research in pulmonary hypertension (PH), with a focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). The recipients will receive a combined total of $1 million in grants over a two-year […]
UF Researchers to Study PFAS’ Effect on Humans
While many Americans aren’t familiar with PFAS, this group of manufactured chemicals not only surrounds us but can be found in nearly everyone’s blood, a risk federal regulators want to understand better. The Environmental Protection Agency announced that studying these chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, is one of its main commitments. And […]
New Study Shows Modified T Cells Enhance Effectiveness of Immunotherapy in Tumors
In a new cell-culture and mouse-model study, a research team at the McKnight Brain Institute led by UF’s Jianping Huang, M.D., Ph.D., and Linchun Jin, M.D., Ph.D., demonstrated a novel technique using the injection of genetically modified cells to enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy to halt or even shrink late-stage solid tumors. In the study, […]