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Tech Tuesday

Tech Tuesday: Maribel Ciampitti

On this Tech Tuesday segment, Melanie Morón interviews Maribel Ciampitti from the UF College of Medicine Jacksonville to discuss her recent invention aimed at assisting patients with respiratory muscle strength training.

Tech Tuesday: NysnoBio

On this Tech Tuesday segment, Melanie Morón interviews Jennifer Johnston from NysnoBio to discuss the company's work in gene therapy to treat Parkinson's disease.

Tech Tuesday: Standing InnOvation

In this Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate's Melanie Morón is joined by Jim O’Connell, the Assistant Vice President for Commercialization and the Director of UF Innovate, at Standing InnOvation, UF Innovate | Tech Licensing’s annual event to honor and celebrate the achievements of innovators across the University of Florida.

Tech Tuesday: Fighting Cancer With Human Waste

In this Tech Tuesday, our host Melanie Morón goes into the lab of UF researcher Christian Jobin, who is using bacteria from human waste – along with existing drugs – to supercharge the immune system and kill cancer.

Tech Tuesday: Gene Therapy

In this week’s Tech Tuesday, we meet Dr. Shannon Boye, a researcher at the University of Florida, who is working to use gene therapy to restore or improve vision for people with genetic disorders causing poor eyesight or even blindness.

Tech Tuesday: LPRC

In this Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate host Melanie Morón introduces us to Dr. Read Hayes, the director of LPRC, a company here in Gainesville working with major retail corporations to detect and prevent theft, fraud, and violence.

Tech Tuesday: OneSixOne Ventures

In today’s Tech Tuesday, Justis Mendez, co-founder of OneSixOne Ventures, tells host Melanie Morón about an event that aims to highlight the tech ecosystem in the greater Gainesville area and connect the larger southeast region of Florida and beyond to the tech innovation and investing that’s happening here.

Tech Tuesday: CIED

In this Tech Tuesday, host Melanie Morón meets with Laurence Andrews, who leads Santa Fe College's CIED, a business incubator in the newly constructed Blount Hall. CIED is hosting the first-ever PS27 Veteran Founders Forum on November 2, an all-day event to benefit veterans and those in active military service who want to start their own businesses.

Tech Tuesday: NOMAD Project

In this episode of Tech Tuesday, we meet a researcher who is trying to build larger structures in space than have ever been built before using lasers and robotics.

Tech Tuesday: Eufinity

This week’s Tech Tuesday introduces us to Eufinity, which offers a text-message app designed to make mental health care accessible and stigma-free for college students.