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Count biotech researcher and entrepreneur Qun Huo among the winningest losers of the recent high-technologybusiness<\/a> competition known as the Cade Museum Prize.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0University of Central Florida<\/a> chemist and founder of\u00a0Nano Discovery Inc.<\/strong> was chosen as the second runner-up earlier this month in the\u00a0Gainesville<\/a>-based contest, named after researcher Robert Cade, who led the\u00a0University of Florida<\/a> research team that created Gatorade.<\/p>\n

It was a disappointment for Huo, the first Central Florida entrepreneur to reach Cade’s final four in its three-year history. But the letdown was only temporary, she said last week, because now she has investors and possible\u00a0business\u00a0partners<\/a> lining up as a result of contacts made during the competition.<\/p>\n

“We were very fortunate to meet a lot of people and get a lot of publicity,” Huo said. “Now there are indeed a lot of investors and potential partners talking to us and looking at the\u00a0technology<\/a>. It has been a very good thing.”<\/p>\n

It’s no surprise that Huo’s work would attract such attention: advanced\u00a0cancer<\/a>-detection technology is typically a big draw for high-tech investors. And the UCF professor has developed a next-generation test to find and measure cancers at the super-miniature level by using gold nano-particles and “dynamic light scattering.”<\/p>\n

Read more about Huo’s research here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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