Glint Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA IND Acceptance for Clinical Study for Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of Antibiotic Drug-Releasing Contact Lens, ACL5
UF startup Glint Pharmaceuticals (Glint), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing a next-generation contact lens drug delivery technology, announced that the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to evaluate its antibiotic drug delivery contact lens, ACL5. Glint anticipates beginning the investigation in Q2 2023.
A Founder’s Collaboration Skills May Be the Key to Success, Especially in Deep Tech
Accelerators like UF Innovate are crucial to the early-stage economy, and to innovation in the United States. It’s at places like these that new technologies can be brought to the market, including technologies that with a profound effect on people’s lives and health. One UF Innovate company, for instance, is MYOLYN, which makes therapy systems for people with neurological disorders and injuries, like multiple sclerosis or stroke.
Startup Spotlight: Slice Engineering
Imagine 3D printing a body part for a major organ transplant surgery to save a person’s life. The backgrounds of both co-founders, Daniel Barousse and Chris Montgomery, have been influenced by this incredible technology. Their curiosity and insights into creating a better and more dynamic 3D printing experience for their clients were the geneses of UF Innovate | Accelerate client resident, Slice Engineering.
UF/IFAS Helps Floridians Launch Food Business Dreams
After 10 years as an educator, Smith wanted a new adventure.
“I thought of what I enjoyed doing, but none of those things were appealing to me to do as a business,” she said. “Except for making fried lentils. For me, making lentils was very relaxing. Not only that, but everybody loved my lentils. It’s a favorite family snack.”
At first, Smith put the idea on the backburner, thinking it might not be feasible.
“I thought that I would immediately have to get my product in stores, and I had no idea how to do that,” she said. “I didn’t even originally attend the Extension cottage food course with the intention of starting my own business. It was to support someone else. But once there, a lightbulb went off. I realized I could do this.”
From Fighting Shoplifting to Pioneering Gene Therapies, the Startups in This Accelerator Are on the Front Lines of “Super Creativity”
The startups within UF Innovate, as well as the accelerator itself, are vivid examples of what creativity and innovation expert James Taylor, based in Scotland, describes as SuperCreativity—a phenomenon that many business leaders are trying to foster in today’s fast-changing business environment. It is a concept that goes beyond creativity or innovation alone.
UF AI Center To Push Boundaries of Ag Research
AI will create a fourth agricultural revolution, achieving huge gains in farm productivity the way the introduction of tractors, synthetic fertilizers and genetics did in previous eras. The speed and success of that revolution depends on how well land-grant university innovators.
The groundwork for the revolution has been laid by more than a century of UF/IFAS establishing credibility through its citrus science. Working with a UF/IFAS faculty member comes with assurance that growers’ data will be protected.
QRDI’s Qatar Open Innovation Program Announces Winning Partnerships
The Qatar Research, Development and Innovation (QRDI) Council’s flagship program, Qatar Open Innovation (QOI), has announced the two winning innovation partnerships for Hassad Food, Qatar’s investment arm in food and agribusiness sectors, one of which is a UF startup and Accelerate resident, Micro Nano Technologies.
UF Innovate Honors Innovators at Fifth Standing InnOvation Celebration
More than 200 innovators and entrepreneurs gathered for UF Innovate | Tech Licensing’s fifth annual Standing InnOvation event to honor and celebrate innovators and their work at the University of Florida in fiscal year 2022.
Florida’s Life Science Leaders United To Celebrate 25 Years of Innovation and Growth in the State
BioFlorida’s 25th Annual Conference united statewide leaders of Florida’s life sciences industry representing biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and digital health companies, globally recognized research universities and research institutions, and the state’s health systems to spotlight the continued momentum and success in science, business, and public policy and spur collaboration and future growth.
Orange County Hands Out Thousands of Free Mosquito Traps
Last month, Orange County Mosquito Control identified approximately 93,000 acres that are seeing more mosquitoes. Because of that influx, the county and the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are handing out free mosquito traps.
The traps were invented in a UF lab. And the company that now sells them, Inzecto Mosquito Trap, donated 100,000 traps to hard-hit communities impacted by hurricane Ian. 9,000 of those traps went to Orange County.