April 25, 2024
Research & Development
KPMG to Build State-of-the-Art Learning, Development, and Innovation Facility in Orlando, Fla.
KPMG LLP has unveiled plans to build a state-of-the art learning, development, and innovation facility to further enhance the world-class training capabilities it offers to its partners and professionals. The 55-acre campus will be built in the 14-square-mile community of Lake Nona in the City of Orlando, Florida, with construction scheduled to begin in spring 2017.
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Published on 1/10/2017
Four state universities collaborate on $10 million center to address Zika and other diseases
With a $10 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Florida will lead a highly collaborative research program focused on stopping diseases such as Zika before they spread farther into the United States.
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Published on 12/27/2016
Mérieux NutriSciences relocates food testing laboratory and brings 100 jobs
Mérieux NutriSciences announced that it will begin relocation plans to move its food testing facility from southwest Gainesville to a 22,700 square foot location one mile east of downtown Gainesville, close to the University of Florida campus.
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Published on 11/29/2016
On the move: Innovations at a web-based logistics company
A Tampa man starts a web-based business that lets retailers and others take advantage of excess space on trucks to ship their products.
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Published on 11/28/2016
Promising startups are innovating in Florida
A look at some of Florida's most innovative new companies.
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Published on 11/28/2016
Florida Institute funds Gainesville-based Biotork, LLC
Company enables efficient, cost-effective bioconversion of renewable feedstock
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Published on 11/4/2016
Babcock Ranch: A place in the sun
Babcock Ranch's solar center will be ready for the community's first residents next year.
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Published on 10/26/2016
UF study: Why 'managerial derailment' affects women more than men
Gender bias can influence how supervisors view a manager's long-term potential, a new study from the University of Florida shows.
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Published on 10/3/2016
Nova Southeastern University opens new Center for Collaborative Research
215,000-sq.-ft. facility is a focal point for research and discovery in South Florida.
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Published on 9/26/2016
Gov. Scott authorizes $25 million in state funds for Zika virus vaccine research and development
Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that following the inaction of the federal government to allocate funding to fight Zika, $25 million in state funds will be authorized to support research to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus and enhance Zika testing methods.
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Published on 9/22/2016
NASA's OSIRIS-REx speeds toward asteroid rendezvous
NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of the early solar system.
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Published on 9/9/2016
Injecting citrus tree trunks with bactericide may help stem greening
A chemical treatment known as a bactericide could help preserve citrus trees from the potentially deadly and costly greening disease, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences study shows.
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Published on 9/9/2016
UF/IFAS researchers scramble to find cure for tenacious, costly sugarcane virus
Researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are working to find a cure or develop resistant varieties for a virus that is attacking sugarcane and sorghum throughout the Everglades agricultural region.
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Published on 9/6/2016
UCF technology for killing metastatic breast cancer cells discovered, licensed
A UCF College of Medicine cancer researcher has discovered a way to kill spreading breast cancer cells and her new technology has generated a licensing agreement that will accelerate the therapy's path to clinical trials.
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Published on 9/2/2016
Striking Rein-Gold: A profile of Reinhold Schmieding and Arthrex
The son of German immigrants has become a billionaire in Naples by combining hard-nosed business tactics with a Euro-style workplace to dominate the arthroscopic surgical instrument market.
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Published on 8/26/2016
Florida's life sciences industry is on the map
Created almost from scratch since 2003, Florida's life sciences industry is progressing — despite some high-profile failures.
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Published on 8/26/2016
Free-agent professors: Signings
Universities around Florida are adding faculty.
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Published on 8/26/2016
Research briefs: The latest in research being conducted around Florida
Health data, grouper sex, scanners, how running barefoot helps memory, how sponges from Antarctica may help fight MRSA bacterial infections, and more.
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Published on 8/26/2016
Biomarker breakthrough could improve Parkinson's treatment
A new, non-invasive way to track the progression of Parkinson's disease could help evaluate experimental treatments to slow or stop the disease's progression.
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Published on 8/18/2016
Gainesville has become a tech hub for engineering entrepreneurs
It's now cool to be an engineer. Better yet, an engineer in Gainesville that starts a cool company.
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Published on 8/14/2016
NIH awards $2.4 million to MPFI scientist to investigate the role of astrocytes in neural circuits
Work will focus on calcium signaling properties of astrocytes in the visual cortex
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Published on 8/10/2016
UF receives record $724 million in research funding in FY 2015-16
Research focused on Alzheimer's disease, agricultural pests and economic development was among the thousands of projects funded with a record $724 million in research awards to the University of Florida last fiscal year.
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Published on 8/2/2016
Florida Institute funds Orlando-based Mend VIP
The Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research announced that it has finalized a funding agreement with Mend VIP, an Orlando-based company with technology developed at the University of Central Florida.
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Published on 7/29/2016
UF researchers discover first-ever method to farm Pacific blue tang
Finally, it may be possible for regular folks to find their own Dory.
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Published on 7/21/2016
Florida State receives $10 million for nuclear research center
Florida State University will receive $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to create a new Energy Frontier Research Center that will focus on accelerating scientific efforts needed to support nuclear waste cleanup.
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Published on 7/19/2016
