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Pheromones Give Nematodes a Boost in Controlling Pests

UF Innovate alumni startup Pheronym, an ag-biotech pest control company that develops and produces nematode pheromones that can be used to direct beneficial nematode behavior, has established a cooperative research agreement with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The ARS team, Pheronym CEO Fatma Kaplan, and Ed Lewis, head of the Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology, […]

UF/IFAS Researchers Use AI to Take the Guesswork Out of Fruit Pricing

Pricing fruit comes down to a bit of art and some science for farmers. But new technology from the University of Florida may remove some of that guesswork. “Growers often rely on their gut to estimate a price for their crop,” said Daniel Lee, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the UF Institute […]

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 […]