AxoGen CEO Karen Zaderej Named A Florida Entrepreneur of the Year (BioSpace)
As a female chief executive officer in the healthcare industry CEO Karen Zaderej often stands out in a male-dominated industry. This month she stood out for another reason – as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Award winner for the state of Florida in the healthcare category. Zaderej leads AxoGen, a UF […]
Nematodes in Space – Pheronym Wins Grant for Eco-Friendly Pest Control for Interstellar Agriculture (EIN Newsdesk)
Pheronym, a bio-ag-tech pest control company that is a client of UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech and a former client of The Hub, has received the Florida-Israel Innovation Partnership Award for its nematode focused pest control solution. The $300,000 award will help the company conduct field tests of its proprietary eco-friendly solution with a […]
Oragenics Touts New Drug to Fight Clostridium Difficile (Proactive Investors)
New research by Sid Martin Biotech alum Oragenics Inc., now a Tampa-based clinical-stage biotech group, has uncovered a novel type of antibiotic known as a lantibiotic for the treatment of clostridium difficile, an infection causing colitis, called OG716. When golden Syrian hamsters infected with clostridium difficile were treated with the drug OG716, a variant of […]
RTI Surgical Expands Portfolio of Spine Implants to Meet Surgeon Needs and Improve Patient Outcomes (RTI Surgical)
UF startup and Sid Martin Biotech alum RTI Surgical, Inc. a global surgical implant company, announced the full commercial launch of its Fortilink®-TS and -L IBF Systems, adding to a growing series of interbody fusion devices featuring proprietary TETRAfuse® 3D Technology. The Fortilink-TS and -L Systems are intended for use in lumbar interbody fusion procedures […]
FDA Classifies Banyan Biomarkers’ Brain Trauma Assays as Class II Devices (RAPS.org)
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified brain trauma assessment tests and endoscopic electrosurgical clip cutting systems as class II devices. Both device classifications were established via the De Novo pathway based on FDA’s review of 2016 and 2017 requests from Ovesco Endoscopy AG and UF startup Banyan Biomarkers, respectively. These in turn allow […]
UF Startup AxoGen CEO Karen Zaderej Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in Health Care (Jacksonville Business Journal)
Karen Zaderej, CEO of Alachua-based AxoGen Inc., a UF startup, took home the prize in the Health Care category. Her company focuses on the development and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair. “I am honored to be named an Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner in Florida,” Zaderej said in a statement. […]
Editorial: Keep up Work to Retain Local Startups (Gainesville Sun)
Alachua County does a good job of nurturing start-up companies, but needs to get better at keeping them in the community as they grow. The University of Florida’s business incubator in Gainesville, now known as The Hub, opened a new wing in January that doubled the facility’s size. The wing is already about 70 percent […]
Research Will Power Accelerated Learning for Technology Entrepreneurs (The NIIC)
Successful entrepreneurs are driven to address unmet market and customer needs. In that same spirit, a national research project is underway to accelerate learning for technology-driven entrepreneurs. “This research is focused on founder learning behaviors, the role of entrepreneur coachability, and how startups can gain commitment from that first employee. We are unaware that this […]