An innovative Florida Hospital surgeon has invented a new medical tool to make surgeries safer and less invasive for women. (Read more)

The National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $25 million grant jointly to researchers from the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, Florida (VGTI FL) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). (Read more)

Florida Atlantic University and the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida in Port St. Lucie have reached an agreement to collaborate on research, education and training. The collaboration will involve sharing facilities and equipment, co-hosting joint seminars and preparing joint grant applications to state and federal agencies. (Read more)

The University of Florida breaks groun on its new Clinical and Translational Research Building, a120,000-square-foot complex that will speed scientific discoveries to patients. (Read more)

Sarasota-based METI, a world leader in interactive human patient simulation, is launching a new Hospital Services Unit. (Read more)

The UCF College of Medicine began its first health leadership initiative with Orlando's Jones High School Medical Arts Magnet program on Friday, a partnership designed to increase the diversity of students in medical education and better prepare those youngsters to enter the health-care profession. (Read more)

Daya Medicals, Inc. presented its game-changing patient-centered medication dispensing and data coordinating "cloud" based hub, the MedPod, to a select group of industry specialists and health care professionals. (Read more)

Tampa General & USF unveiled their new $35 million collaborative neonatal intensive care unit. The Jennifer Leigh Muma Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, affiliated with the USF College of Medicine, will bring research and neonatal care together. (Read more)

Edison State College will soon open its state-of-the-art nursing and medical facility. The 57,722 sq. ft. facility will expose students to situations and technology they'll see in the workplace. (Read more)

BioFlorida helped 77 Florida firms win more than $26 million in federal tax credits or grants under the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program for research and development of new products or therapeutics with promise to significantly advance healthcare in the country. (Read more)

Bonita Springs-based Tigris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held drug development company, has completed a private placement of $6.5 million. (Read more)

Florida-based Banyan Biomarkers won a $26.3 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a point-of-care test for diagnosing traumatic brain injury. (Read more)

The Max Planck Florida Institute and Florida Atlantic University team up to launch a new, joint Integrative Biology and Neuroscience graduate program. (Read more)

University of Florida officials broke ground on the UF Research and Academic Center at Lake Nona. This $44 million, 100,000-square-foot facility will include the Orlando campus of UF's College of Pharmacy, a clinical research unit from UF's Institute on Aging and another research institute that works to speed the development of drugs. (Read more)

Osceola Regional Medical Center has signed an agreement with Sarah Cannon Research Institute, a national clinical research program, to become a cardiovascular clinical research strategic site. (Read more)

Florida's Xhale Inc. has received a $1.8M SBIR Phase II grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the NIH to develop a next generation breath-based ethanol sensor. (Read more)

The UCF College of Medicine opened its $65 million, 170,000-square foot, state-of-the-art medical education building at Lake Nona, featuring the latest in lab and classroom technology. (Read more)

Moffitt Cancer Center and Central Florida Health Alliance jointly announce today that they are partnering to provide world-class cancer care closer to home. The partnership will deliver state-of-the-art cancer care in two new facilities to be built on the campuses of Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System. (Read more)

Innovative hemophilia research from the UCF College of Medicine earned one of only five Special Project Awards by Germany's Bayer Healthcare. Dr. Henry Daniell and his team are working to prevent potentially deadly reactions to hemophilia treatments by helping patients develop a tolerance to them with the use of genetically modified plants. Read more

USF Health won key funding and can now move forward with plans to establish its new School of Pharmacy, which will begin enrolling students in August 2011. The new program will emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration, so that pharmacy students can learn from faculty and other resources in the USF Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. (Read more)

Small Florida life sciences companies can soon apply for a new tax credit or a grant under the Affordable Care Act that covers up to 50 percent of the cost of qualifying biomedical research. The U.S. Department of Treasury recently released the guidelines for the application process on its website. (Read more)

 

Florida Atlantic University won approval to create an independent medical education program. The new FAU medical education program will employ a unique Continuity Medicine Curriculum and a state-of-the-art medical simulation center. (Read more)

Since its program began in 2007, South Miami Hospital executives say it has become one of the world's busiest centers for surgeries using robots, formally called da Vinci Surgical Systems. In Florida, 49 hospitals have 67 high-tech robots performing surgeries. (Read more)

Lake Nona's Medical City has been selected as the national site for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Simulation Center for Excellence. The center, located at the new Orlando VA Medical Center, will be the nationwide training and planning home for the VA's new medical simulation system, which will allow VA employees to improve care and treatment for veterans across the country. (Read more)

The University of Florida's Institute on Aging has received close to $15 million from the National Institutes of Health to construct an almost 40,000-square-foot complex for clinical and translational research. The building will bring together scientists from a range of scientific disciplines and enhance how aging research is carried out on the campus. (Read more)

Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center received $15 million in federal stimulus money to build the country's largest coral reef research center. The $30 million, 86,000 sq. ft. Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Science Research Facility will house local, national and international coral reef research. (Read more)

Alachua's Sharklet Technologies is one of only nine companies chosen for Inc. Magazine's list of the most innovative technologies of 2009. Sharklet makes sheets of plastic which are imprinted with a raised sharkskin-like pattern and can be adhered to germ-prone surfaces to prevent bacteria from settling in for up to 30 days.  (Read more)