Biotech entrepreneurs win top awards at annual conference
Two South Florida biotech entrepreneurs won top awards this week at the annual BioFlorida conference in Orlando.
Claudia Zylberberg, founder of Akron Biotech in Boca Raton, won the 2015 David J. Gury...
No rest for Florida’s biotech competitors
Florida’s $1.5 billion bet on biotech has been slow to bear fruit in part because the nation’s science hubs have responded with spending sprees of their own.
Consider Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Massachusetts Institute...
Miami startups Biscayne Pharmaceuticals, Insero Health merge
Two young Miami-based biopharmaceutical companies, Biscayne Pharmaceuticals and Insero Health, already shared a lead investor and executive chairman, as well as office space on Biscayne Boulevard. On Monday they announced that...
Miami startups Biscayne Pharmaceuticals, Insero Health merge
Two young Miami-based biopharmaceutical companies, Biscayne Pharmaceuticals and Insero Health, already shared a lead investor and executive chairman, as well as office space on Biscayne Boulevard. On Monday they announced that...
Modernizing Medicine to go on hiring blitz, break into telemedicine: CEO
The co-founder of a Boca Raton medical technology startup said Tuesday his company is about to embark on a hiring blitz, adding at least 100 new employees to his 430-person firm.
Daniel...
Annual Update Shows Florida’s Biotech Industry is Resilient
The latest Florida Biodatabase (FBD) annual update from the University of Florida’s Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator shows that the expansion of Florida’s biotech industry remains resilient with an overall growth rate of 92%...
Revenue up, but net loss, for Alachua biotech company
Alachua-based Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation reported quarterly revenue of $713,000, an increase of $589,000 compared to the same period of 2014, and annual revenue of $2.4 million for the fiscal year...
Scripps institute agrees to licensing deal with Opko Health
Opko Health in Miami has announced a global licensing agreement with Jupiter-based Scripps Florida research institute and its counterpart in La Jolla, Calif.
The company plans to develop the next generation of...
This Boca startup is just what the doctor ordered
Brian Garr had his heart set on building the next "killer" medical app for Google Glass. When his cardiologist told him that idea wouldn't pan out, however, the Boca Raton serial entrepreneur...
Push is on to expand area’s biotech workforce
For four years, life-science entrepreneur Steve Glover used to travel every week from his home near Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco. That's where he could find people with the skills he...
