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UF Health Shands Hospital accepted a major donation of nearly 100,000 face masks from Cox Business Florida & Georgia. This donation provides essential equipment for the health system’s front-line workers who continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation by Cox Communications includes 55,000 filtered masks and 35,000 surgical-style masks. It is among the largest...

Small, single-vaccine clinical trials may not provide sufficient evidence that a COVID-19 vaccine is effective enough to provide significant protection, writes a group of World Health Organization scientists, including the University of Florida’s Ira Longini, Ph.D., in a commentary published last week in the journal The Lancet. “You need large numbers and multiple products in...

Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The contract ceiling value is $106.3 million, of which $53.1 million was obligated at the time of award. In this program, Ology Bioservices will manage the reservation of production...

Jim McKenzie, the headmaster at the Rock School, uses his love for teaching and leadership to improve the education, skills and character of his students. McKenzie, who was born into a family of educators, knew he wanted to teach since he was in high school. However, his friends encouraged him to go into something with...

Home sales activity in July was very positive and shows that home sales were up by 10.6% year over year. In other good news, the average sales price increased by 6.7 % and the time homes were on the market were down 4.2%. The Alachua County real estate market is strong. While it was a...

When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of neurosurgery in 2016, he had a big goal for the university: become a member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. On July 16, Gururangan achieved that objective when UF was named one of four new PBTC member institutions along with the...

The University of Florida’s Office of Professional and Workforce Development, Warrington College of Business, and Office of the Chief Diversity Officer have announced the 4th Annual Inspiring Women Leaders (IWL) Virtual Conference for March 8-9, 2021. Growing Together is the theme for IWL 2021. This phrase represents unity, openness, and making connections, while also focusing...

United Way of North Central Florida’s (UWNCFL) Board of Directors has appointed Amber Miller, Senior Director of Business & Community Partnerships, to serve as the organization’s interim President & CEO. She succeeds Dr. Mona Gil de Gibaja who resigned on July 24. The organization also welcomes Patrick Dodds as the new Director for the Continuum...

Rusty Thompson of The Master’s Lawn Care has been serving the people of Gainesville for 16 years.  Thompson was raised on a farm in Melrose. He always assumed he would follow his family’s footsteps and go into real estate, but when his father passed away his junior year of high school, his career plans changed....

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, has announced next steps in the clinical development of the Company’s potential treatment of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) caused by mutations in the RPGR gene following receipt of written feedback...