Category: Research & Innovation

UF researcher Joel Harley, Ph.D., is set to co-direct the Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD) Center as an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC).

Researchers from the University of Florida have, for the first time, exposed security risks in portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA.

Innovation was in the spotlight last week as UF Innovate | Tech Licensing celebrated the top six innovations of 2025 at its annual Standing InnOvation event. Four of the recognized technologies came from faculty researchers in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. 

Backed by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a University of Florida research team is combining living cells with solid-state materials to develop better tools for environmental monitoring. 

Scientists are using vibrating nanoscale drumheads to study how magnetism moves and changes inside special materials — a discovery that could help power the next generation of fast, energy-efficient computers. 

Armed with a nearly $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, UF, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Utah are creating these AI-based models to simulate human behavior during evacuations – information that will help emergency managers shape more effective evacuation plans. 

A University of Florida professor is developing a fast, powerful tool for blocking harmful human enzymes, a process that could result in better medicines and more precise treatments for diseases. 

A groundbreaking international partnership with the University of Florida and the non-profit organization of Sustainable Energy Initiative Pty Ltd of Australia at the center is charting the future of sustainable energy and clean technologies that aim to protect the environment. 

In a collaboration between UF’s biomedical engineering and neurosurgery departments, UF researchers are testing the potential of nanoparticle imaging to boost cancer immunity.

Longer-lasting phones, lighter drones, electric cars that drive farther. These are just some of the possibilities thanks to a new battery separator design from University of Florida researchers and their partners.