UF Startup Receives $50K Award From Innovation Fund America
Innovation Fund Northeast Ohio, the region’s most active pre-seed fund for technology-based startups, has awarded a combined $737,500 to 14 startup companies over the past six months. The companies will receive Innovation Fund awards of between $12,500 and $100,000 enabling them to complete projects that will advance their technologies or business models. UF startup Structured […]
Clinipace Drives Study Startup Optimization with goBalto (PR Newswire)
goBalto, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based clinical study startup solutions, announced that UF startup Clinipace has chosen goBalto’s end-to-end platform for starting clinical trials. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. These words ring true when it comes to study startup, a notorious bottleneck in clinical trials. With research showing a […]
Explain Your Brain: New Breakthroughs In TBI Science For Veterans (DisabledVeterans.org)
(This post on DisabledVeterans.org discusses traumatic brain injury and calls the blood test that indicates TBI created by UF startup & Sid Martin Biotech graduate Banyan Biomarkers “great news.”) If you’re a veteran with a traumatic brain injury, or TBI, you know how frustrating it can be. With a range of types and severities, TBI […]
Clinipace Brings on Medical and Development Officers, Along with a New Brand (FierceBiotech)
UF startup Clinipace is bringing on new members of its C-suite to build out its role as a midsized contract research organization, after appointing a new CEO last fall. In addition, the Morrisville, North Carolina-based CRO has launched a new brand with the tagline “Challenge Accepted,” to illustrate its willingness to provide a personalized approach […]
How Do You Stop Sunday Scaries? These 9 Solutions Can Help You Feel More Ready For Monday (Bustle)
Have you ever had a great weekend, only to be met with an achy feeling of unease and a pit in your stomach on Sunday evening? Do you dread the work week, and think about all your upcoming assignments, projects, and deadlines on a loop as the weekend comes to an end? If you nodded […]
Meridian Partners with Telehealth Resource (The Gainesville Sun)
Meridian Behavioral Healthcare sees a variety of patients in a variety of settings: clinics, stabilization units, recovering centers. With a new partnership, it will be able to expand its reach beyond walls. It’s partnering with UF startup TAO Connect, a digital mental health resource platform designed for clinicians and patients. TAO Connect is a graduate […]
Energy Department Invests $13.5M to Advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology (EIN News)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 16 projects to receive approximately $13.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects that will advance solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technologies. UF startup Redox Power Systems is among the companies receiving funding. SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective […]
ViewRay MRI Guides Brachytherapy Planning (PhysicsWorld)
A team of clinicians at the University of Wisconsin have used a ViewRay MRI-guided radiotherapy system to perform brachytherapy planning for cervical cancer. So, what motivated the team to use the UF startup’s system to perform brachytherapy planning? And how does use of the system fit time-wise alongside its use for treatments? Writing in the […]
AxoGen CEO Karen Zaderej Named A Florida Entrepreneur of the Year (BioSpace)
As a female chief executive officer in the healthcare industry CEO Karen Zaderej often stands out in a male-dominated industry. This month she stood out for another reason – as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Award winner for the state of Florida in the healthcare category. Zaderej leads AxoGen, a UF […]
Exactech Earns Research Award at International Computer-Assisted Surgery Conference for ExactechGPS® Knee Application (BusinessWire)
UF startup Exactech, a leading developer and producer of bone and joint restoration products and biologic solutions for extremities, knee and hip, earned the Second Place Best Clinical Podium Presentation Award for one of five new research studies presented on the company’s latest computer guidance technology for knee surgery at the International Society for Computer […]