TAO Connect’s Founder Sherry Benton Shares Tips To Replace New Year Resolutions With New Habits
Many start the new year with resolutions, but the hard part is sticking to them. Dr. Sherry Benton, founder of UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub graduate TAO Connect, a digital platform designed to make behavioral health therapy more accessible and effective, says it’s easier to start with small changes that you can sustain all year long.
Alachua’s Life Sciences Ecosystem Raises Over $1.0 Billion in 2020
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech announces the City of Alachua’s life sciences industry has raised more than $1 billion in 2020. The life sciences community has accelerated growth with government grants and contracts, mergers and acquisitions, successful financing rounds, and sales revenue.
Chronic Wound Care Company Clearikon Graduates from UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech Program
UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech, the leading biotechnology incubator at the University of Florida, is pleased to announce that resident company Clearikon has graduated from its program.
Orchard Tech Helps Create Savvy Seniors
Some of the best business ideas begin with family, and 25-year-old Ming Yang’s Orchard Tech, a UF Innovate | The Hub alum that helps Baby Boomers cross the digital divide, is one of them.
Harness Pheromones for Sustainable Pest Control
“Without some method of treatment, about 12% of crops globally would be lost to plant parasitic nematodes,” says Karl Cameron Schiller, co-founder and chief operating officer of bio-tech startup Pheronym. To combat these pests, Schiller and his team are developing non-toxic pesticide solutions that pose fewer risks to the environment.
COVID-19 Fighting Antibodies Developed in Alachua Sent to Clinical Trials
Supporting our troops: an Alachua company works to keep our soldiers safe from COVID-19. Here’s what UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is doing on the front lines of the pandemic.
When Entrepreneurship Meets Healthcare: Lessons in Playing the Long Game
One medtech immunotherapy company called Morphogenesis in Tampa, Florida, a UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum, is currently working on one of the highest-stakes medical issues of all: treating cancer.
Century 22 Solutions Joins Creek Technologies Company’s OASIS Team
UF Innovate | The Hub resident company Century 22 Solutions LLC (C22) formally announced that it joined with Creek Technologies Company’s (CreekTech’s) team pursuing opportunities under the General Services Administration (GSA) for the agency’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business (SB) Pool 1 Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC).
Ology Bioservices Signs Built-to-Suit Lab Space, Adding 43,000 Square Feet to Headquarters
Avison Young facilitated a 42,500-square-foot lease agreement between Concept Companies and Ology Bioservices, a UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum, for a new built-to-suit lab space on the heels of a federal government contract for the company to expand production capabilities, including vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 once finalized.
Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology Inducted As 2020 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Richard J. Melker, MD, Ph.D., a distinguished University of Florida Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology, has been elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.