innovation
AGTC Selected to the University of Florida's 2016 Gator100
Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, announced in February that the company has been selected to the 2016 Gator100. The Gator100, named after the University of Florida’s mascot, annually recognizes and celebrates the 100 fastest-growing businesses in...
Four startups named semi-finalists for Cade Museum Prize for Innovation
By Ron Wayne The Cade Museum for Creativity + Invention has narrowed the 16 finalists for the 7th Annual Cade Museum Prize for Innovation to the Final Four. They are: AbleNook — A Tampa startup that developed prefabricated living modules that snap together and are easily assembled, transported and adaptable to diverse terrain. Feynman Nano...
UF Professor's Data Security Company Moving to Innovation Square
The number of tech companies moving to Innovation Square continues to grow with the arrival of a UF professor’s large-scale data processing and security company. Tera Insights, previously located in the Sun Center in downtown Gainesville, will relocate with an aim to attract more clients, create more jobs, expand its office space, and be closer...
Cade Museum Receives $184,000 Grant from Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded $184,000 to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida to share their creativity and science programs with a national audience. Named in honor of the late Dr. J. Robert Cade – the lead inventor of Gatorade – the Cade Museum exists to inspire creative thinking, future...
$50 Million Wertheim Gift is the Largest in UF History
Dr. Herbert Wertheim and the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation have committed $50 million to launch a $300 million public and private investment in the University of Florida’s College of Engineering. The Wertheim gift, the largest cash gift in UF’s history, is the cornerstone of a fund-raising initiative that will pool funds from...
UF College of Journalism announces speaker series
The University of Florida College of Journalism has announced a lineup of acclaimed speakers, titled The Innovators Series, that will be free and open to the public. “The Innovators Series will bring six leaders in the information industries to the University of Florida over the next two years whose inventive outlooks have propelled them to the leading...