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Foresight, a diversified construction management firm, recently broke ground on a new worship facility for The Rock of Gainesville, a family centered nondenominational church currently located on SW 24th Avenue. Foresight is the construction management firm for the church’s new 27,669 SF north campus worship facility on W. Newberry Road that will include a state-of-the-art...

Karen Wright worked her way through the small gathering outside her 4-month-old daughter’s room in pediatric intensive care. It seemed to her as if everyone at UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital had come to witness this historic moment. Wright, nervous but thrilled, told a nurse, “I think I’m going to cry.” Near her, a pharmacist...

Brian Hunt thought there had to be a better way. The 44- year old runner and triathlete – with an Ironman, multiple marathons and other shorter races under his belt – was tired of searching through different websites to try and find information on when and where races were happening. “It was almost as if...

The Office of Professional and Workforce Development, in partnership with Warrington College of Business and the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Florida are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Inspiring Women Leaders Conference that will be held March 8-10, 2020 at the University of Florida Hilton Conference Center. This 2...

RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc., a global surgical implant company, has announced MedTech Breakthrough has selected TETRAfuse® 3D Technology as the “Best New Technology Solution – Orthopedics” in their 2019 Awards Program. MedTech Breakthrough is an independent organization recognizing the top companies and solutions in the global health and medical technology market. This year’s program attracted...

Alachua-based CTD Holdings, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company that develops cyclodextrin-based products for the treatment of disease with unmet medical need, has announced that it closed its previously announced private placement of securities with a group of institutional and accredited investors that included directors and officers of the Company. Investors in the private placement...

Fake blood, authentic emergency responders and loud screams crowded the humid air last Thursday morning on the University of Florida campus as nearly 80 students got real-world lessons in how to assess and treat catastrophic injuries during a mass casualty drill. This is the third year that students in the University of Florida’s Summer Health...

Three Gainesville-area innovators were named among the Florida High Tech Corridor’s 2019 “Faces of Technology,” earning the distinction for their work to advance gene therapy, synthetic bone grafts and vacuum technology, respectively: Sushma Ogram, Director of Development and Analytics, Brammer Bio Douglas Rodriguez, Manager of Research and Development, NovaBone Paul Sergile, Director of Engineering, ANCORP...

Nathan S. Collier, of the Collier Companies, and his wife Ani Collier, a former professional ballet dancer from Bulgaria, have generously offered a 10-year dollar-for-dollar challenge grant to help secure the future of Gainesville’s 46-year old professional theatre and its many associated educational and community programs. “The Hippodrome Theatre is a cultural jewel for Gainesville,...

UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech, the leading biotechnology incubator at the University of Florida, has announced that resident company MLM Biologics, Inc. has graduated from its program. MLM Biologics is a medical device company that provides evidence-based solutions in the advance wound care and musculoskeletal clinical spaces. The company designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes...