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On September 28th, the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (Superintendence of Industry and Commerce) granted a patent to researchers from UdeA and ITM for their creation of a biomechatronic canine model. This collaborative effort, which has the potential to completely transform the way veterinary medicine and related fields are taught, recreates a dog's body with its organs preserved and uses electrical and electronic instruments to mimic the animal's physiological processes.

The Optics and Photonics group was recognized by the 2023 Optica Foundation Challenge for its work on a project that goes beyond entertainment and telecommunications. This project aims to create more realistic holographic, virtual, and augmented reality experiences. The group is attached to UdeA's Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, and its laboratory is housed in the University Research Headquarters.

John O'Keefe's discovery of cerebral GPS in the 1970s, which is the region of the brain where Alzheimer's disease begins, is entering a new phase. The Nobel laureate and colleagues from Colombia and the United Kingdom will try to detect early signs of the disease, and if successful, they may be able to develop biomarkers for preventive treatments. 

On September 27, the Universidad de Antioquia presented "Master Class UdeA: local talent at the service of global causes," a strategy to disseminate the institution's scope of knowledge and research related to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (ODS) and Misión de Sabios Colombia 2019’s conclusions. Experts from the university will spread their knowledge around the world through virtual classes.

A student's interest in the Tournefortiopsis plant species, which is related to another species, resulted in the discovery of a record of an individual collected in 1994 from the Sonsón paramo; as of right now, only the existence of that particular specimen is known. This further demonstrates the importance of herbaria in the discovery of new species.