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Sherman Merricks, the founder and CEO of Dynasty CrossFit, has been serving the people of  Gainesville for almost 10 years. Merricks discovered his passion for sports at a young age and continued to pursue athletics in college by playing basketball at Southeastern University. After graduation, he moved to Gainesville with his wife in 2005 where...

The University of Florida is the most productive large university in the country at leveraging its research funding into new companies, new jobs and new ideas, according to a report released last week by the George W. Bush Institute and the Opus Faveo Innovation Development consulting firm. A team of economists and business development experts...

Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced that the Department of Defense (DOD), through the Joint Science and Technology Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), has awarded the company with three biomanufacturing contracts with a combined value of more than $16 million. In the first program, valued...

Kim and Kyle Farris, the owners of Heart Happy Films, find joy in providing valuable experiences to their clients by not just doing a job but by creating authentic friendships in the process.  In this week’s episode of the WHOA GNV Podcast, the husband and wife keepsake creators share their story about meeting in the...

UF Health Shands has been named on two prestigious top 100 hospital lists recognizing the health system’s national excellence. Becker’s Healthcare has named UF Health Shands in its 2020 edition as one of the nation’s “100 great hospitals in America.” And IBM Watson Health announced the health system made the 2020 Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100...

The 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, or 1Florida ADRC, a University of Florida-organized consortium of leading research institutions aimed at making Alzheimer’s and related dementias treatable, preventable and one day curable, has received a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging. The award will enable the consortium to...

The University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of pediatrics has been awarded a nearly $1 million federal grant to expand telemedicine services and equipment among underserved and vulnerable populations. The $967,957 award from the Federal Communications Commission’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program will be used to acquire an array of monitoring and diagnostic equipment, including tablet...

The popular IdentoGo TSA Pre✓® Mobile RV event is returning again to Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV). The event will run from Mon., July 27 – Fri., Aug. 14, 2020. The Mobile Enrollment Center will be located on the airport property at 3880 NE 39th Ave., Gainesville, Fla., 32609, at the east end of the terminal....

The University of Florida was recently named one of the top large universities in the country for overall innovation impact, averaging 123 issued patents and 15 startups per year between 2013 and 2017 and you can feel the innovative buzz throughout Gainesville. But innovation and Gainesville have not always been synonymous. In 2005 the initial...

Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has been awarded a contract to advance development of a cocktail of anti-botulinum neurotoxin monoclonal antibodies (mAb) by the Department of Defense (DOD) through the Joint Science and Technology Office of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Joint Program Executive Office for...