UF Innovate | Tech Licensing celebrated the achievements of University of Florida innovators at its eighth annual Standing InnOvation event on Wednesday, October 29, recognizing the groundbreaking research discoveries made in fiscal year 2025.
This year’s event also marks 40 years since UF began transferring technologies from the lab into the marketplace and 30 years since it opened its first biotech incubator in Alachua, what is now called UF Innovate | Accelerate at Sid Martin Biotech.
The event honored 796 innovators, all of whom contributed in some way to 435 new technologies disclosed, 130 licenses, 130 issued patents, or the 9 new startup companies. Eric Wang, Ph.D., was named Innovator of the Year for his work on all aspects of neuromuscular and neurological diseases, as well as RNA biology. His lab focuses on myotonic dystrophy, a disease caused by a genetic mutation, and how the mutation causes problems in muscles, the heart and the brain.
