UF Innovate | The Hub Named Mixed-Use Entrepreneurship Center of 2019
At its annual conference in Minnesota, the International Business Innovation Association named UF Innovate | The Hub the global Mixed-Use Entrepreneurship Center of the Year. Close to 72 percent of the 9,000+ incubators worldwide are considered mixed-use; The Hub is top in a category of more than 6,500 incubators. “Being recognized by your peers is […]
Zimmer Biomet and RTI Surgical® Partner with AAID Foundation to Expand Access to Dental Care for Veterans
Zimmer Biomet and UF startup RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc. announced they are donating a supply of dental implants and wound care products to the American Academy of Implant Dentistry Foundation (AAIDF) for an initiative benefitting veterans of the United States Armed Forces. The AAIDF is the charitable arm of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, […]
Ology Bioservices Wins Two Department of Defense Awards Totaling More Than $135 Million
UF startup Ology Bioservices, Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced that the Department of Defense (DOD), through its Platforms for Rapid Integrated Solutions for Medical Countermeasures (PRISM) office, has awarded the company with two contracts valued at $135.4 million. The first is for the development of a medical countermeasure, and the […]
TAO Connect’s Online Therapy Finds New Niches
A partnership between UF startup TAO Connect and the University of Ottawa may be just the beginning of an expansion that will give the St. Petersburg tech company a broader presence and new groups of people to serve. TAO — which stands for Therapy Assistance Online and has a digital platform aimed at making behavioral […]
BSI Team Joins Forces With Oragenics in Search for New Antibiotics
A biophysics team led by Florida International University researchers Prem Chapagain and Bernard Gerstman has joined forces with UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident client Oragenics Inc. in an effort that could lead to the development of new compounds to treat life-threatening infections. Oragenics develops antibiotics that can be used against infectious diseases and […]
Peerfit Nets $18 Million, Plus More Top Funding News for Tampa-Based Companies
Tampa-based health care company Peerfit, a UF startup, has secured $18 million in Series C funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city’s recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced on March 19 and financed by Virgo Investment Group. According to its Crunchbase profile, “Peerfit is the market leader in connecting employers and carriers with innovative […]
UF Startup Florida Insect Control Group Featured at University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, D.C.
University of Florida researchers behind Florida Insect Control Group, a pest control device company, originally intended to protect deployed military personnel from insect-borne diseases, shared the story of their #Research2Startup path at the University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, D.C., April 10. Organized by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities and the Association […]
Thermo Fisher to Acquire Brammer Bio in $1.7 Billion Gene-Therapy Deal
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said it is buying Alachua-based Brammer Bio for $1.7 billion in a move that would expand the lab-equipment company’s presence in the rapidly growing field of gene therapy. Closely held Brammer Bio, owned by private-equity firm Ampersand Capital Partners, provides pharmaceutical companies developing gene therapies and gene-modified cell therapies with outsourced […]
AGTC Announces Reaching Enrollment Milestones in Phase 1/2 Clinical Trials
UF startup Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, 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 achieved enrollment milestones in two of its Phase 1/2 clinical trials. The company completed enrollment of the dose escalation portion of the achromatopsia (ACHM) CNGB3 trial, […]
Banyan Biomarkers, Abbott Ink Deal for Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarkers
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Banyan Biomarkers announced that it has nonexclusively licensed its proprietary blood biomarkers of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to Abbott. The biomarkers — ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase-L1 and glial fibrillary acidic protein — can be detected in blood soon after a brain injury. They are the basis […]