technology

Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare eye diseases, and Synpromics Limited, a leading synthetic promoter development company backed by Calculus Capital, announced they have entered into a broad, multi-target collaboration agreement. Potential payments to be made by AGTC to Synpromics...

Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) is transitioning to a new, automated pay parking system and new ticketing technology. The change is part of more than $800,000 of customer service upgrades required to make exiting the parking lot more efficient for passengers. The project includes the addition of a third exit lane to expedite the process. Exiting...

Hutchison PLLC, a leading provider of strategic business counsel to the life science and technology communities, announced today that it has opened an office in Gainesville, FL, to support the entrepreneurial activities so prevalent in Gainesville and Central Florida. “We have observed the growth of entrepreneurial activities in Gainesville and Central Florida for many years,”...

Procedures Represent Gainesville’s First Use of New Technology  Gainesville, FL – North Florida Regional Medical Center (NFRMC) of Gainesville, an HCA affiliate, announced recently it is the first hospital in the Gainesville area to perform robotic assisted surgery using the newest da Vinci Xi® system.  The new system offers three dimensional high definition visualization and...

University of Florida among those receiving $7 million to empower women farmers The University of Florida is part of a consortium led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) that has been awarded $7 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase global food security and support effective rural development....

More Powerful Wireless Charging System Using “Hotspots” This wireless power transmission system provides power to multiple devices within a volume of space, potentially as large as a room. The age of battery-powered electronics has created a huge demand for convenient recharging technologies. For many applications, traditional recharging via wire connections or physical contact can be...

Online retailer giant Amazon.com marked its foray into smartphone development when it launched Fire on June 18, but some Gainesville techies say the device isn’t for everyone. The Fire smartphone boasts six cameras and a sensitive sensor system that can recognize a wide variety of items such as phone numbers, addresses and QR codes –...

By Caitlyn Finnegan When the founders of software development company Totuit, based in the University of Florida Innovation Hub, decided to take on the issue of public safety, they wanted to tie it into the one thing people never leave home without: their smartphone. So Totuit’s President Jordan Johnson designed an app that acts like...

Looking for a new business opportunity? The University of Florida Office of Technology Licensing is ready to play matchmaker for companies interested in latching onto up-and-coming research and patents to help commercialize and take new ideas to market. Here’s just a few of licenses up for grabs: Software and Hardware with High-Precision Indoor Navigation Capabilities...

The National Business Incubation Association has named the Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator as a finalist for the 2013 Incubator of the Year Award in the technology focus category. The winner will be announced April 9 at NBIA’s conference in Boston. The Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator, located in the Progress Corporate Park in Alachua, is operated by the...