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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...

Scott Lippmann, former city manager of Williston, has been named the new Chief Executive Officer for CareerSource North Central Florida. Laura Guy-Rice has been appointed to serve as the Chief Financial Officer. Lippmann began serving on June 8, 2020 and Guy-Rice will start on July 6, 2020. The appointments are part of restructuring of the...

For the third time, the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) has awarded its highest honor – the Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year award – to UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech. “Being named the best incubator on the planet is amazing. Receiving this award three times in a decade speaks volumes to the...

A three-year, $220,000 grant from Florida Blue to UF Health Pathology Laboratories will fund the purchase of a laboratory information management system, technology that will help ensure rapid and accurate COVID-19 pooled testing. Michael J. Clare-Salzler, M.D., chair of the UF College of Medicine’s department of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine, said the pooled testing...

The May sales report is in and the data is sending mixed signals. May 2020 sales are down 28% compared to May 2019. “Even though closings are down, I’m encouraged by some of the other numbers,” said Jeremy Thomas, President of the Gainesville-Alachua County Association of REALTORS. “Prices seem to be holding, properties are selling,...

The Alachua County Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training Initiative was recently recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo). The Department of Court Services managed this Initiative. This responsibility was granted in recognition of the Department’s prior experience in helping MHFA training be expanded to local criminal justice agencies under...