June 18, 2013
Research & Development
Florida's talent pool is too lightweight
Florida, with the nation's fourth-largest economy, has about 18,600 Ph.D. scientists and engineers in its public and private sectors combined...
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Published on 6/18/2013
Drumming up support for a commercial spaceport
Space Florida, the state's aerospace economic development agency, continues to work for a commercial launch site just north of the Kennedy Space Center.
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Published on 6/14/2013
Overreach at the University of Miami?
UM had to restructure its huge investment in health care and life sciences but makes no apologies for its ambitions.
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Published on 6/11/2013
UF's Innovation Hub nurturing tech gurus
The University of Florida's new Innovation Hub aims to create ‘collision' among entrepreneurs.
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Published on 5/31/2013
Fast-Tracking Research
In 1993, Norma Sue Kenyon, an immunologist who had done diabetes-related research for the University of Miami...
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Published on 5/31/2013
Private Institutes
Scripps Research Institute, Sanford-Burnham, Torrey Pines and Max Planck
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Published on 5/31/2013
One for the Birds
Archbold Biological Station draws scientists from all over the world
but has remained low-profile inside Florida.
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Published on 5/31/2013
University Snapshots
Portable Imaging, The Gold Standard, Shelter Solution, Mad Cow Disease Detection and Neural Protection
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Published on 5/31/2013
UltraTech
UltraTech International co-President Mark Shaw managed to make spill containment sound sexy during a talk he gave at the TED technology conference earlier this year.
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Published on 5/8/2013
Didrick Medical X-Finger
The X-Finger is a finalist for the Cade Museum Prize
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Published on 5/7/2013
Medical Math: Mathematicians doing cancer research
In a few years, a mathematician may be part of every medical team that treats a cancer patient.
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Published on 5/6/2013
Flying high on renewable biofuel
When a Falcon 20 commercial jet flying over Canada's capital city of Ottawa recently logged the first-ever civilian flight powered by 100% renewable biofuel, the trip marked a triumphant conclusion to six years of research at the Panama City offices of Applied Research Associates.
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Published on 3/21/2013
Prevacus
Neuroscientist Jacob VanLandingham, an assistant professor at Florida State University's college of medicine, began research in 2004 to develop a drug to treat concussions...
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Published on 2/22/2013
Securboration
Melbourne based company provides crucial cyber services for the U.S. Navy
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Published on 10/18/2012
Medical Arms Race
Proton therapy centers are proliferating in Florida, highlighting both the medical industry's push to create new technologies - and their role in driving health care costs.
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Published on 9/12/2012
Health Care Highlights
» VA Care for Women
When Peggy Mikelonis returned from serving as a nurse in Vietnam in the 1970s, she landed a job at the VA — but she didn’t...
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Published on 9/10/2012
Advanced Training for Health Care Professionals in Florida
Doctors and other medical professionals travel to Florida from around the world to learn at two of the most prominent training facilities in the country.
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Published on 9/10/2012
