{"id":278641,"date":"2026-05-20T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:43:07","slug":"usf-faculty-members-to-be-inducted-into-florida-inventors-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278641\/","title":{"rendered":"USF faculty members to be inducted into Florida Inventors Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 20, 2026 &#8211; Three University of South Florida faculty members, Dr. Mark Frankle, Dr. Patrick Hwu and Donald Keck, will be inducted into the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridainvents.org\/introducing-the-2026-inductees-to-the-florida-inventors-hall-of-fame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Inventors Hall of Fame<\/a> in November. Frankle, the chief of shoulder and elbow surgery at the Florida Orthopaedic Institute, is known for the &#8220;development of a transformative reverse shoulder prosthesis,&#8221; according to a prepared statement. The president and chief executive officer of Moffitt Cancer Center, Hwu is known for &#8220;developing chimeric receptor genes that led to modern CAR T-cell therapies.&#8221; Keck, a professor in USF\u2019s Institute for Advanced Discovery &amp; Innovation, co-invented low-loss optical fiber in 1970. To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2026\/three-pioneering-usf-faculty-members-to-be-inducted-into-the-florida-inventors-hall-of-fame.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 20, 2026 &#8211; Three University of South Florida faculty members, Dr. Mark Frankle, Dr. Patrick Hwu and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-278641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}