UF/IFAS Scientist to Work with Team Developing New Greening-Tolerant Citrus
When Nian Wang pieces together sequences of genes, he hopes to make citrus varieties that are more tolerant to the deadly disease known as greening, which has devastated a multibillion dollar-a-year industry in Florida. Wang, a professor of microbiology and cell science with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, will help […]
The Making of PX-80: the World’s First Handheld LiDAR Scanner with Color Data
UF startup Paracosm has been at the forefront of SLAM-based 3D-mapping since the company’s founding in 2013. In the ensuing years, they’ve racked up an impressive resume: helping Google develop the dense 3D-mapping engine on the Project Tango smartphone, receiving iRobot’s first corporate VC investment, and most recently being acquired by spatial computing powerhouse Occipital […]
How to Lead by Example and Share the Power With Peerfit CEO Ed Buckley
Leadership means serving the people below you. That’s true leadership that I teach to our department heads and anyone in a leadership position at Peerfit. The only way that you can use power correctly is to give it out to the people around you. Peerfit CEO Ed Buckley lives and leads the UF startup’s creed […]
Gene Therapy Offers Hope to People With Achromatopsia, an Inherited Retinal Eye Disease
For years, people with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), such as achromatopsia (ACHM), have been undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or delayed seeking genetic testing to confirm their diagnosis due to the lack of treatment options. Thanks to the rapid advancement of gene therapy research, this situation is changing. Achromatopsia patients, however, still face a long journey in pursuit […]
Cannabix Technologies Completes Breath Collection Unit and Provides Update
Cannabix Technologies Inc., the developer of the Cannabix Marijuana Breathalyzer for law enforcement and the workplace, is pleased to report that it has received an initial version of its portable handheld device that will provide for easy collection of breath samples at the point of care. In collaboration with company scientists, MistyWest Engineering of Vancouver […]
Oragenics, Inc. Receives Further Validation for Lantibiotic Compound OG716
UF startup Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis (“OM”), announced the publication of a preclinical study using the lead compound from its lantibiotics program, OG716, in the peer-reviewed journal, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Oragenics is an alumnus of UF Innovate | Sid […]
Ology Bioservices Appoints Vaccines and Biologics Manufacturing Industry Veteran, Brandon Brega, as Chief Operating Officer
UF startup Ology Bioservices, Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced the appointment of vaccines and biologics manufacturing industry expert, Brandon Brega, to the position of Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. In this newly created position, Brandon will lead manufacturing and operations at the company’s 183,000 square foot Department of Defense Advanced […]
Nash Pharmaceuticals Announces 84% Reduction of Fibrosis by Additional Lead Compound in Second Pre-Clinical Study for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nash Pharmaceuticals Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UF startup Breathtec Biomedical Inc., announces that its lead compound for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) NP-160 showed repeated positive results in a recently completed study investigating its therapeutic effects in the widely used STAM mouse model from SMC Laboratories. In addition, a second compound, NP-135 was identified as […]
UF Grads Win $500K Grant for Mobility Project
Since his undergraduate years at the College of Engineering at the University of Florida, Matt Bellman has always had interest in innovations involving mobility. In 2015, Bellman’s UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub graduate company, Myolyn, developed bicycles to help paralyzed people exercise. Bellman and Myolyn CEO Alan Hamlet have teamed up to […]
Cade Prize 2018: Winner Aims to Boost Florida Orange Groves
This year the winner of the Cade prize is a UF startup called Soilcea. Soilcea is an agricultural biotechnology company focused on using gene editing to solve citrus diseases. Soilcea changes the genes of citrus crops. “You can think of this as molecular scissors,” said Kara Boltz, lead scientist at Soilcea. “So essentially we are just […]