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Moving scientific discoveries to patients requires the expertise and support of many groups. At “Innovating for Cures,” a recent event held at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, innovators, philanthropists and venture capital investors shared their thoughts on accelerating biomedical research advances to people with significant unmet medical needs. Benjamin Patz, managing partner of DeepWork Capital, manager of the #FloridaOpportunityFund, shared some encouraging statistics: 38,000 tech companies and more than 120 billion-dollar companies are based in #florida . Florida ranks fourth in the United States for total #technologyjobs , with over 440,000. Florida was also No. 1 in the nation in both 2021 and 2022 for new technology businesses established. Today, Florida universities invest more than $1.4 billion annually in life-science R&D, he noted. “We believe there’s an opportunity to invest here in Florida,” Patz said. The event was jointly sponsored by The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology; UF Innovate | Accelerate, the University of Florida’s technology licensing arm; and DeepWork Capital, a venture capital group that manages the Florida Opportunity Fund. FloridaCommerce Read more about the event: https://lnkd.in/grQgBzf3 Would you like to be on the mailing list for future events? Sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gwV-5WwC

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Matthew Kane

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