Tiny Florida Medical Research Firm Faces Giant Challenge — COVID-19 Vaccine
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a Tampa-based medical research business with roots in Gainesville, found itself at a crossroads earlier this year right before the COVID-19 pandemic struck America. The company’s previous project had been working on modifying genes related to bacteria in the hopes of stopping oral mucositis in […]
The First Optical Space Mini-Camera Takes 20,000 Images in a Month
The first miniaturized space-based Earth-observing optical camera has begun sending huge-resolution images after a complex process of calibration, thermal stabilization, and connection tests. The camera, developed by UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Satlantis, a provider of high-performance payload technologies for Earth observation and remote sensing, has reached image number 20,000 […]
UF Innovate | Ventures Announces Inaugural Investments; Follows JSR Corporation’s Repeat Investment in OLED Display Startup Mattrix Technologies
The University of Florida’s newly established venture fund, directed by UF Innovate | Ventures, has closed an investment in Mattrix Technologies. Repeat investor JSR Corporation is leading the $3M series A1 financing, which will support the joint development of production-ready materials for a new class of video display technology that promises to bring the true-to-life […]
Oragenics Provides Update on SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Program
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis, provided an update on progress with its SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccine candidate and announced the termination of its clinical development program with AG013 for the treatment of severe oral […]
Collagen Solutions Enters Into Three-Year New Agreement With NovaBone Products
Collagen Solutions, a company producing custom formulations of medical-grade collagen biomaterials and tissues for use in medical devices, had entered into a new minimum three-year agreement with UF startup NovaBone Products, a designer and manufacturer of synthetic bone grafts. The agreement formalized a longer-term supply arrangement to ensure NovaBone had consistent and increased access to this […]
Cannabix Technologies Files Patent for Detection of Molecules in Breath Using FAIMS technology
UF startup Cannabix Technologies Inc., the developer of the Cannabix Marijuana Breathalyzer for law enforcement and the workplace, is pleased to report that it has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) entitled, “Apparatus and Methods for Detection of Molecules”. This provisional patent covers multiple new inventions and intellectual property […]
Ology Bioservices Wins Three Department of Defense Awards Totaling More Than $16 Million
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced that the Department of Defense (DOD), through the Joint Science and Technology Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), has awarded the company with three biomanufacturing contracts with a combined value of […]
AGTC Boosts AAV Manufacturing Productivity With Herpes Simplex Virus
By using the herpes simplex virus (HSV) as a helper for its adeno-associated viral (AAV) platform UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC) created AAVs that are more robust, purer and lower cost than any of the other methods. Its gene therapy program for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa […]
The Journey to 3D Map the World – Amir Rubin of Paracosm
In 2012, inspired by a desire to recreate the amazing locations Amir Rubin and his wife Katie had visited, he was hit by the vision to 3D map the world. With funds from his personal savings earned from consulting gigs and proceeds from the exit from Prioria Robotics, his first company, UF startup Paracosm, a […]
IC2 Wins NASA Phase 2 SBIR for Field Deployable Wireless Data Acquisition System for Ground-Test Arrays
UF startup Interdisciplinary Consulting Corporation (IC2), a technology-development company commercializing miniaturized instrumentation that monitors the health of aerospace propulsion systems and enables reduced aircraft noise and improved fuel efficiency, announced that NASA has selected the company for a new Phase 2 contract from the 2019 SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program for Field Deployable Wireless […]