BioFlorida Honors Two UF Startups for Their Role in Fighting COVID-19
Molekule receives COVID-19 Innovation Award; Ology Bioservices receives David J. Gury Company of the Year Award COVID-19 Innovation Award The COVID-19 Innovation Award recognizes a Florida company that has made significant advances in the fight against COVID-19. The 2020 COVID-19 Innovation Award was presented to Dr. Yogi Goswami, the world-renowned Director of the Clean Energy Research Center […]
Gene Therapy Company AavantiBio Launches With $107 Million Series A Financing From Perceptive Advisors, Bain Capital Life Sciences, RA Capital Management and Sarepta Therapeutics
A premier syndicate of life sciences investors including Perceptive Advisors, Bain Capital Life Sciences, and RA Capital Management, together with Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., announced a $107 million Series A financing to create AavantiBio, a gene therapy company focused on transforming the lives of patients with rare genetic diseases. The private financing round includes a $15 […]
ABEC Supporting Ology Bioservices COVID-19 Therapeutic Manufacturing Programs
ABEC, a leading global provider of integrated solutions and services for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, announced it is delivering process systems to UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), to support their production of critical vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19. ABEC is providing […]
ASTRO 2020 to Feature Latest MRIdian Clinical Experience Highlighting Outcomes in Tough to Treat Cancer
UF startup ViewRay Inc., a leading medical technology company that provides groundbreaking MRI-guided radiation therapy, announced that the company’s MRIdian® Linac MRI-guided radiation therapy system will be featured at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), being held virtually October 24 to 28, 2020. The meeting will feature presentations that […]
entrinsic bioscience Secures U.S. Patent Grant for Breakthrough Respiratory Disease Program
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident client entrinsic bioscience (EBS), a company pioneering a next-generation protein modulation technology, announced that it has been granted U.S. Patent No. (USPN) 10,758,507 (‘507 patent) for novel therapeutic formulations in the treatment of a range of respiratory diseases with significant unmet medical needs. EBS is […]
SATLANTIS Will Launch Its Second Nano-Camera Into Space in 2022
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident company SATLANTIS, a provider of high-performance payload technologies for Earth observation and remote sensing, will launch its second nano-camera into space in 2022. The plans were announced during the annual meeting held in Bilbao, Spain, by its Advisory Council, which is proud of the success achieved in the first […]
SharpSpring Transforms Campaign Performance Reporting With Launch of Multi-Touch Attribution
UF startup SharpSpring, Inc., a leading cloud-based sales and marketing automation platform, announced the release of Multi-Touch Attribution, designed to help agencies and SMBs more easily measure the true impact of their sales and marketing campaigns. “We’re excited to bring advanced campaign attribution tools to our agency partners and clients,” said Chip House, chief marketing […]
Concept Companies Unveils New Office for Lacerta Therapeutics in Alachua’s Copeland Park
Gainesville-based developer Concept Companies has completed construction on a new 12,950-square-foot office and lab building in Copeland Park for UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Lacerta Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company. With its official move-in date on July 27, 2020, Lacerta Therapeutics is the newest tenant in Alachua’s Copeland Park. […]
UF Based Company Develops Technology for Cheaper Tech Screens to Sell Globally
You might not think much about how your phone or TV screen works the way it does. As you can guess, there’s plenty of technology behind it–literally. One group of University of Florida graduates have built a company around that technology. It’s called Mattrix Technologies, a UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident […]
AGTC Joins the My Retina Tracker Program as a New Scientific Collaborator
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), Blueprint Genetics, and Foundation Fighting Blindness, announced that AGTC, a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, will join the My Retina Tracker Program as a new scientific collaborator […]