Central Florida Is Ground Zero in the war against citrus greening, where the battle extends from historic groves to university laboratories, hi-tech strategies and the newest innovatons in crop research.
The clock is ticking as an insidious microbe lays waste to Florida's citrus groves, making the entire peninsula an experimental field trial for strategies that researchers hope will fend off the extinction of a crop that contributes billions of dollars and more than 75,000 jobs to the state's economy.
M2Gen, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, USF Health, Shriner's Hospital, the James A. Haley VA Hospital and Florida Hospital are key collaborators in North Tampa's growing research corridor.
MediFuture 2023 in Tampa will focus on rethinking how traditional healthcare is delivered to create new models for patient care.
Sponsors supplied the markers and paper, while USF-area travelers supplied the big ideas meant to answer the question critical to keeping people on the move: What does it take to make a street complete?
Orlando's Baldwin Park neighborhood, carved from the carcass of an abandoned naval training station, serves as a model for cities looking to combine tradition and innovation in the design of new urban communities.
Intezyne's patented "Trojan horse'' drug delivery system, developed at the Tampa Bay Technology Incubator in Tampa, is a rising star in the pharmaceutical industry. Now the company's lead product faces the ultimate test: clinical trials on humans.
What metal mixtures can withstand heat generated by a turbine engine at full throttle? Chromalloy scientists, engineers and laborers find the answers in Tampa as they test and repair engine parts inside a new $27 million state-of-the-art manufacturing plant complete with gleaming stainless steel machinery and vintage Star Wars robotics.
A petite engineer with big ideas aims to revolutionize high-tech inventory control, courtesy of a partnership between the University of Florida and Franwell, a Lakeland firm committed to innovating Radio Frequency Identification technology.
She's a gifted cook with a masters in language and economics. He's a talented artist who mastered the art of showcasing his wife's skills at two defunct Plant City eateries. The third time may be the charm, though, for Berna and Erkan Nar, a couple of Turkish transplants whose recipe for success simmers in a busy little Mediterranean bistro near downtown Lakeland.
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