How Shark Scales’ Unique Design Inspired the First Manmade Pattern to Help Stop Bacterial Spread
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Sharklet Technologies Inc. is featured in Business Insider for its novel, breakthrough technology that inhibits bacteria growth and even limits touch transfer of viruses, reducing the transmission of harmful microorganisms.
Rafael Guzmán, SATLANTIS’ CTO, Featured on The Space Industry Podcast
Rafael Guzmán, founder and CTO of UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident SATLANTIS, a Spanish business that develops Earth Observation (EO) optical payloads for small satellites around the world, is featured on The Space Industry podcast by Sat Search.
CROs dMed and Clinipace Merge To Accelerate Customer Success
dMed Global, a full-service Clinical Contract Research Organization (CRO) based in Shanghai, China, and UF startup Clinipace Incorporated, a full-service clinical CRO with headquarters in North Carolina, USA, announced that the two companies will merge.
Florida High Tech Corridor Incubators Experience Startup Surge
Florida native and CEO of Agriculture Intelligence Matt Donovan has discovered a “renewed environment with a fertile ground for talent.” A resident company in UF Innovate | The Hub, Agriculture Intelligence is a precision agriculture science company combining machine vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide cloud-based, precision data for specialty crops.
Cannabix Technologies Receives Notice of Allowance for Cannabis Drug Detection Device Canadian Patent
UF startup Cannabix Technologies Inc., developer of the Cannabix Marijuana Breathalyzer devices for law enforcement and the workplace, reports that it has received a notice of allowance from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) for its 2015 licensed patent application, No. 2887841 entitled, “Cannabis Drug Detection Device”.
AGTC Licenses Promoter Technology to SparingVision SAS
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum 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 a licensing agreement that provides its proprietary cone-specific promoter technology to SparingVision SAS, a genomic medicine company developing vision-saving treatments for ocular diseases.
SATLANTIS Receives Investment From Two Spanish Companies
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client SATLANTIS, a company specializing in high-performance optical loads for observation of the Earth for small satellites, has had the entry into its shareholding by Enagás, the main natural gas transporter in Spain, after a capital increase of 14 million euros.
New Grant Will Help Develop Vaccine Delivery System for Tilapia Lake Virus
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has joined in the war against the tilapia lake virus (TLV) with a US$ 790,326 (EUR 671,206) Seeding Solutions grant award to the University of Florida in support of the development of a vaccine delivery system for halting the spread of the disease.
Artificial Intelligence Leads the Way in a Sea Change for Agriculture
UF agricultural engineer Yiannis Ampatzidis says artificial intelligence — the convergence of new tools for data collection with cloud computing to analyze the explosion of information — is changing the face of agriculture in a way that is nothing short of revolutionary.
Tampa Bay Company Searching for Other Vaccine Methods
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis, is in the pre-clinical phase of developing a vaccine they say would solve two critical problems when it comes to ending the pandemic.
