Molekule Is a Tech Company on a Mission to Solve the Global Air Pollution Problem
UF startup Molekule, a leading innovator in clean air purification, is on a mission to solve the global air pollution problem by reimagining the future of clean air. What started as Dr. Yogi Goswami’s solar research has become the key to air purification technology: photo electric chemical oxidation or PECO. PECO now sits at the […]
UF/IFAS Plant Geneticist Named Fellow of American Society for Horticultural Science
If you savor the sights of caladium, gerbera, and other ornamental plants, you can thank Zhanao Deng for developing better varieties. In his three-decade career, Deng beams with pride over new types of caladium and gerbera he’s bred that are more resistant to diseases. He’s also happy with his lantana varieties, which are genetically sterilized […]
University of Florida Research Proposal Selected by NASA to Support Moon, Mars Exploration
NASA has awarded 15 grants for new space biology research designed to help the agency achieve its goals under the Artemis lunar exploration program. Teams of investigators will use state-of-the-art genetic and other biological techniques to explore how life adapts and changes during spaceflight, and the results could help support human exploration of the Moon, […]
University of Florida Neuroscientists Have Received Grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants. The goal of the foundation is to support physician-scientists looking for new and better cures for childhood cancer. Loic Deleyrolle, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in the UF College of Medicine’s department of neurosurgery, was awarded a $100,000 St. Baldrick’s research […]
Four Research Centers Will Share $8 Million Parkinson’s Foundation Grant
The Parkinson’s Foundation has granted four U.S. institutions $8 million to design and launch Parkinson’s disease research studies over the next four years. The University of Florida was one of the four institutions to receive the grant. The newly designated Parkinson’s Foundation Research Centers will get $2 million each — $500,000 annually — to support their quests […]
The Story Behind the Sweat Patch: Innovating at Gatorade
In 1965, when University of Florida football coaches discovered that players were losing 18lb in weight during 3 hours of practice, they created “Cade’s Ade,” (soon renamed the snappier Gatorade). Over the years, Gatorade has evolved its products and services while staying true to its mission of helping athletes achieve their goals. Sports drinks are […]
Blue Water Vaccines, Developing Universal Flu Vaccine, to Partner With Ology Bioservices Inc.
Blue Water Vaccines, a Cincinnati-based biotechnology startup, has signed an agreement with UF startup Ology Bioservices, Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), to manufacture a novel universal influenza vaccine. The vaccine, based on technology licensed from the prestigious University of Oxford in the U.K., has shown promising results in a preclinical study […]
University of Florida Health Researchers Find New Details of Immune System’s Molecular “Switch”
A group led by a University of Florida Health researcher has found out how one molecular “switch” influences the immune system — a finding they say has major implications for future treatments for immune system diseases and cancer. “Knowing how the Treg cells function is essential to long-term therapies that could be developed for autoimmune […]
UF Scientists Eye Novel Drug Candidate With Marine Origins to Treat Vision Loss
UF College of Pharmacy researchers teamed with collaborators at SERI and at A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore, or IMCB, to see whether Apratoxin S4, a novel molecule based on marine cyanobacteria, could be an effective therapy in restricting abnormal blood vessel formation in the eye, which may be a potential treatment […]
Morphogenesis, Inc. Is Testing Cancer Vaccine
Scientists at UF startup Morphogenesis, Inc., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company headquartered in Tampa, call the “therapeutic vaccine” a simple and safe technology that could help people who already have cancer fight it off. Six patients with stage three and stage four melanoma started the trial in November 2018. Morphogenesis, Inc., is working with specialists at Moffitt […]