Yavuz Receives Prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award (UF ECE)
UF researcher Tuba Yavuz is addressing cybersecurity threats using a technique called “fuzzing.” Her project, Constraint-Guided Local Fuzzing of Binaries, received $1 million in funding through the prestigious Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award program.
UF Plant Biologist Anna-Lisa Paul Receives SURA’s Distinguished Scientist Award (UF News)
UF researcher Anna-Lisa Paul has been named a recipient of the Southeastern Universities Research Association’s (SURA) 2025 Distinguished Scientist Award, recognizing her groundbreaking contributions to space biology and her leadership in advancing scientific exploration beyond Earth.
Tech Meets Tide: UF RoboPI Lab Joins Forces for Marine Ecosystem Monitoring (UF News)
RoboPI, led by UF researcher Md Jahidul Islam, Ph.D., recently partnered with the Ocean Rescue Alliance International (ORAI) and the International SeaKeepers Society to advance marine robotics for ecosystem monitoring.
UF Researchers ‘Rewriting Organ Biology’ With Revolutionary Transplant Technology (UF HWCE)
UF Innovate | Accelerate client company CasNx is pioneering CRISPR-based technology to cleanse and enhance donor organs before transplant, reducing viral risks and improving patient outcomes.
AI Tool Speeds Acute Myeloid Leukemia Diagnosis
A team of UF researchers has developed a digital tool digital tool that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the diagnosis of acute leukemia
UF Researchers Get Closer to Saliva Test for Breast Cancer
UF researchers have improved a potentially transformative handheld device to detect breast cancer in saliva, simplifying the design and confirming its accuracy.
NIH Award Supports New Extracellular Vesicle Loading Platform To Develop Gene Therapy
UF researcher Mei He, Ph.D., has received a $1.3 million award from the National Institutes of Health to support a new extracellular vesicle platform used to develop gene therapy.
Farahmandi Receives 2024–25 Khargonekar Award
Associate Professor and Walden C. Rhines Endowed Professor for Hardware Security Farimah Farahmandi, Ph.D., has received the 2024–25 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award, which recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall
Tech Tuesday: University of Florida Lab Working on Making Robotic Hands More Human-Like
In this week’s Tech Tuesday, UF Innovate highlights Dr. Eric Du and his lab at UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, who are developing robotic hands that can feel and respond like human hands using advanced touch sensors and AI.
Surprising Finding Could Pave Way for Universal Cancer Vaccine
A University of Florida study found that, like a one-two punch, pairing a test vaccine with commonly used anticancer drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors triggered a strong antitumor response.