<p>The state Board of Governors approved $4.5 million for UF’s new Center for Excellence (Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy, Energy Technology Incubator) on Thursday. Despite losing some money for its biofuel and green technology center, the expansion of the list allowed for the inclusion of another UF for Center of Excellence (the center for Nano-Bio Sensors). This will allow another $4 million for a center to develop health care tools using principles of nanotechnology, the science of creating technologies on the tiny molecular scale.</p>
<p>Thursday’s vote will mean UF now has three centers of excellence, including the Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology, which was created in 2003 to develop treatments for human diseases. </p>
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<p>Centers of Excellence approved by the Board of Governors:</p>
<li><p>University of South Florida’s Florida Center for Excellence in Biomolecular Identification and Targeted Therapeutics, $8 million</p></li>
<li><p>Florida Atlantic University’s Center of Excellence in Ocean Energy Technology, $5 million</p></li>
<li><p>University of Florida’s Florida Institute for Sustainable Energy, Energy Technology Incubator, $4.5 million</p></li>
<li><p>University of Central Florida’s Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Laser Technology Initiative, $4.5 million</p></li>
<li><p>University of Florida’s Center for Nano-Bio Sensors, $4 million</p></li>
<li><p>Florida State University’s Center of Excellence in Advanced Materials, $4 million</p></li>
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