AGTC Completes Enrollment of Third Group in the Dose Escalation Portion of the Achromatopsia CNGA3 Phase 1/2 Clinical Study
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, announced that it has completed enrollment of the third group in the dose-escalation portion of its Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating the safety […]
UF Researcher Receives $250,000 Grant to Combat Pediatric Cancer
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation awarded Dr. Catherine Flores, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, with the Innovation Grant. The two-year grant will help her research into the use of stem cell therapy to fight against brain tumors in children. “The diagnosis of a tumor is life-changing for not […]
Sun BioPharma, Inc. Provides an Update on Ongoing Front-Line Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial
UF startup Sun BioPharma, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing disruptive therapeutics for the treatment of pancreatic diseases, provides an update on the Company’s current clinical trial. Following successful conclusion of the first SBP-101 dose-escalation study in heavily pretreated pancreatic cancer patients that showed SBP-101 could be administered safely as monotherapy, a second Phase 1 […]
Morphogenesis, Inc. Moves Forward With Development of Cancer Vaccine
UF startup Morphogenesis, Inc., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company headquartered in Tampa, has been working on the research for nearly 20 years and has already completed phase one of its clinical trial on the treatment which the company says will be directly inserted into cancerous tumors through several methods. “It actually triggers the early response and […]
UF Brain Cancer Researcher Awarded Research Grant
A UF assistant professor in the department of neurosurgery has been awarded a grant of $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health. The money awarded to Catherine Flores, the principal investigator in UF’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, is said to go toward developing an immunotherapy treatment against malignant brain tumors critical in children. Cancer […]
Leading Medical Technology Company, ViewRay, Picks Metro Denver for Expansion
UF startup ViewRay, Inc., a leading medical technology company that provides groundbreaking MRI-guided radiation therapy, announced that they are opening a new location in Denver. ViewRay will add approximately 200 new jobs in the Metro region over the next five years including roles in engineering, operations, clinical, regulatory affairs, and general support. ViewRay also has offices […]
Local Nerve Graft Technology Helps Ocala Man
John Athanason suffered major nerve damage to his right arm, wrist and hand when he slipped and smashed through a sliding glass door in 2017. Thanks to UF startup Axogen, Inc., a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or transection to peripheral nerves, and to Dr. Nirav Gupta, an Ocala […]
AISI Publishes University of Florida Research Report On Strength Of Steel-To-Steel Screw Connections
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published a new research report that reviews the existing provisions of AISI S100-16, North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members, 2016 Edition, for screw connections loaded in shear and tension (but not combined actions). The research was conducted by Thomas Stevens at the […]
University of Florida Rank Among Top 100 Worldwide in Patents
The University of Florida (UF), along with the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) are setting the bar high by earning 218 patents altogether according to the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2018. The report is published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in […]
Shadow Health Educates Nurses of the Future with Virtual Humans
UF startup Shadow Health, an educational technology company, is bridging the “academic to practice skills” gap in health care by providing rich, interactive, digital learning environments for nursing and allied health education programs. The company’s digital patient technology, patented in 2018, came from a team of world-class thinkers and researchers in human-centered computing at UF […]