CVM scientists honored at Standing InnOvation Awards

Seventeen UF College of Veterinary Medicine faculty, researchers, biological scientists and veterinary scholars were honored as part of UF Innovate’s 2025 Standing InnOvation event in October to shine a light on the university’s brightest entrepreneurs.

Standing InnOvation annually offers a ‘standing ovation’ for innovators who have worked with UF Tech Licensing to turn brilliant ideas into reality. For the eighth straight year, UF Innovate honored those who have disclosed, licensed or optioned a technology in the last fiscal year.

This year’s celebration marked the third year also recognizing innovators who have received an issued U.S. patent, including CMV associate professor John Bowden, Ph.D – Treating Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances in Landfill Leachate – and research associate professor Bikash Sahay, D.V.M., Ph.D. – Surface Layer Protein a (SlpA) as a Therapeutic Agent for the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases.

UF Veterinary Medicine 2025 Standing InnOvation Honorees

Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology

• Roy Curtiss
• Danmeng Li
• Vinicius Lima
• Bikash Sahay
• Banikalyan Swain
• Apichai Tuanyok
• Soo-Young Wanda
• Shifeng Wang

Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences

• Adam Biedrzycki
• Ricardo Chebel

Department of Physiological Sciences

• John Bowden
• Paul Davenport
• Christopher Vulpe

Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences

• Nicola Craig
• Stanley Kim
• Rosanna Marsella
• Elizabeth Maxwell

About UF Innovate

UF Innovate supports an innovation ecosystem at the University of Florida that moves research discoveries from the laboratory to the market, fostering a resilient economy and making the world a better place.

Based at one of the nation’s leading research institutions, UF Innovate comprises four organizations: Tech Licensing, Ventures, Pathways and Accelerate, which includes two business incubators, The Hub and Sid Martin Biotech.

Organized under the UF Research umbrella, this quartet forms a comprehensive commercialization system that brings together six critical elements: facilities, capital management, training, talent, intellectual property and technology-transfer expertise.