Blood Biomarkers for Detecting Brain Injury in COVID-19 Patients
COVID-19 can directly cause neurologic symptoms and long-term neurological disease.
University of Florida Tackles COVID-19 With High-Tech Devices
When COVID-19 shut down the country in the spring, some of the brightest engineering minds at the University of Florida’s Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World went to work. “We felt an obligation to rise to the occasion and use our research expertise and creativity,” says institute director, Swarup Bhunia, Ph.D. It was […]
UF Health Enrolls First Patient in Clinical Trial Aimed at Creating New Treatment for COVID-19
University of Florida Health has enrolled its first patient in a clinical trial for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ monoclonal antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19, a therapy that might neutralize the coronavirus and prevent it from infecting cells. UF Health is one of the hundreds of medical centers internationally participating in the blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial to […]
UF Health Study Shows Flu Vaccination Might Confer Protection Against Severe COVID-19
A flu vaccination might do more than protect against influenza. It might also shield some people from a severe case of COVID-19 — even though the infection is caused by an entirely different virus. People who received a flu vaccination in the year before testing positive for the novel coronavirus were nearly two-and-a-half times less […]
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 […]
UF Health Jacksonville to Start Five COVID-19 Research Projects
UF Health Jacksonville is actively enrolling patients in COVID-19 research studies to help researchers and clinicians understand and target treatment options for COVID-19. Two of the studies are clinical trials looking at potential medications effective in treating patients with COVID-19. One study is looking at losartan, an antihypertensive medication, and a placebo. According to the […]
FDA Broadly Supports Oragenics’ Pre-IND Development Program for Its SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
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, announced receipt of feedback to its Type B Pre-IND Meeting Request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it is in broad agreement with the company’s […]
Dr. Sadasivan Vidyasagar, Associate Professor at University of Florida, and entrinsic bioscience CEO Stephen Gatto, Receive University of Florida’s ‘Invention of the Year 2020’ Award
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident client entrinsic bioscience (EBS), a company pioneering a next-generation protein modulation technology, announced that its co-founder, Dr. Sadasivan (Sagar) Vidyasagar, an associate professor at the University of Florida, and entrinsic bioscience’s CEO, Stephen Gatto, received the “Invention of the Year 2020” Award from UF Innovate | Tech Licensing for their novel amino-acid […]
Smartphone-Based Saliva Test That Can Detect COVID-19 Earns UF Professor Honors in National Contest
A University of Florida professor and his industry collaborators have won second place in a technology competition sponsored by the National Institutes of Health for a smartphone-based, rapid saliva test they developed that can be used to diagnose COVID-19, along with two other diseases of major global importance, malaria and anemia. A team consisting of […]
Experts Signal Warning Over Preparations for Future Outbreaks
With much of the country still in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, there are questions about how prepared people really are for outbreaks like this. A University of Florida research professor believes as a country, America needs to change the way it prepares and responds to outbreaks. He’s afraid the U.S. may not be […]