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.
DiaCarta’s Novel XNA Technology Rapidly Detects Raging New SARS-CoV-2 Variants
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum DiaCarta Inc. announced the publication of a study to rapidly detect new COVID-19 variants in MedRxiV.
Breakthrough Paper Outlines Path to Heart Regeneration After Cardiac Injury
Cardiovascular disease kills more than 650,000 Americans annually. Those who survive myocardial infarction remain at risk of death because the human heart has a very limited ability to repair itself. No one has yet found a method that leads to cardiovascular regeneration for a damaged human heart. But all that may change thanks to a revolutionary medical paper written by Dr. Ian White, president and CSO of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident Neobiosis, a company that focuses on the science of regenerative medicine.
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.
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.
Century 22 Solutions Awarded HUBZone Certification
UF Innovate | The Hub resident Century 22 Solutions LLC (C22) is pleased to announce the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) awarded C22 a HUBZone certification.
UF Innovate’s Jim O’Connell Featured on Technology Transfer IP Podcast
Jim O’Connell, assistant vice president for Commercialization at UF Innovate is featured on Tech Transfer IP Forum Podcast, a space devoted to providing in-depth analysis of intellectual property issues related to university and non-profit technology transfer.
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.
StartGNV Hosts Women in Innovation AMA
StartGNV hosted a live ‘Ask me Anything’ on Thursday, March 25, 2021, to highlight women in Gainesville innovation. The three panelists were UF Innovate | The Hub resident clients Helena Cowley, president and CEO of Oxidien Pharmaceuticals; Victoria Liu, founder of Byppo; and our very own Jennifer Harrell, interim assistant director of UF Innovate | The Hub.
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.