CEOs Discuss Sid Martin Biotech’s Impact on Their Business Success

For the past 25 years, UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech has provided the foundation that has turned many startup companies into successful businesses. For many CEOs, Sid Martin played a fundamental role in keeping their companies alive during their infant stages. Gary Ascani is a former CEO of Banyan Biomarkers, Inc., a biotechnology company […]

entrinsic bioscience Strengthens Leadership Team with Appointment of Mario Wanderley as Chief Financial Officer and Accelerates Product Development with New Research Facility

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident client entrinsic bioscience (EBS), a company pioneering a next-generation protein modulation technology, announced the appointment of Mario Wanderleyas Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Wanderley brings 23 years of financial, operational, and strategic expertise to EBS, with significant experience in the medical device, technology, software, telecommunications, and […]

Customized Gene Therapies Successfully Target Rare Eye Diseases

Can gene therapies be effective for the treatment of rare genetic diseases? One company may have found a solution that incorporates a high degree of customization, manufacturing expertise, and years’ worth of knowledge. Having been with Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC) for almost 20 years, CEO Sue Washer has first-hand experience in seeing novel ideas […]

INOVIO Adds Thermo Fisher Scientific To Global Manufacturing Consortium

Inovio, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, announced that Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has signed a letter of intent to manufacture INOVIO’s DNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate INO-4800. Thermo Fisher Scientific will join existing partners […]

Bioscience Firm Makes Progress on Another Kind of Vaccine

The word vaccine carries heavy weight these days, with its tantalizing possibilities to curb the destruction brought on by a certain C-word. But for UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alumni company Morphogenesis, Inc., a clinical-stage immunotherapy company headquartered in Tampa, the word vaccine is connected to a different kind of C-word: cancer. […]

Pheronym Granted Patent for Ag Bio-Remediation Breakthrough

UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, an Ag-biotech pest control company, has been granted its patent for its breakthrough in creating a way to increase the effectiveness of Nematodes’ ability to control pest insects, naturally, in agriculture. The patent is listed as “Nematode dispersant composition and method” […]

Oragenics Signs Process Development and Manufacturing Agreement With Avid Bioservices for Coronavirus Vaccine

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., and Avid Bioservices, Inc., announced that they have entered into a process development and drug substance manufacturing agreement. Under terms of the agreement, Avid will provide Oragenics with analytical method development, process development and drug substance manufacturing services to support the development of Oragenics’ novel […]

Ology Bioservices Wins $106M Army Contract for COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Support

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), was awarded a $106,300,002 firm-fixed-price contract to reserve production capacity of approximately 186,840,000 doses to satisfy an urgent need for domestic aseptic fill and finish manufacturing of critical vaccines and therapeutics in support of […]

AGTC Formalizes Patient Advisory Council to Provide Insights and Guidance on Patient Perspectives for Pipeline Therapies

UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company focused on developing adeno-associated virus (AAV) based gene therapies for the treatment of rare inherited diseases, announced the formation of a Patient Advisory Council to build on its focus of incorporating the patient and caregiver voice into […]