B. Otto and Kathleen Wheeley Awards
University of Tennessee faculty researchers Gabor Tigyi and Tami Wyatt are the 2012 winners of the B. Otto and Kathleen Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. | READ MORE
A Non-Invasive Solution For Detecting Amyloidosis
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Medical Center have developed a synthetic peptide radiotracer to detect Amyloidosis. | READ MORE
Drug Developed to Help Cancer Patients
Ostarine, under development at Memphis-based GTx, doesn't cure cancer, but it can be used to treat the muscle and bone wasting that affects many cancer patients. | READ MORE
It's Not Magic, but Could Assist Healthy Changes
There are weight loss drugs, diet plans and dietary supplements crowding the market these days. | READ MORE
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UT RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Technology Transfer
Everything starts with the inventors working in labs, clinics, greenhouses, offices and classrooms throughout UT. From our offices in Knoxville and Memphis, the UT Research Foundation (UTRF) serves as a bridge between these researchers and industry, entrepreneurs and investors. UTRF facilitates the transfer of inventions to the private sector, providing public benefit of new products which are the result of academic-research funding. This creates new jobs and new companies that boost the economy, and it also produces income for the inventors and the university.
The UTRF Office of Technology Transfer:
- Moves inventions from the lab to the market
- Turns ideas into products
- Creates new industry partnerships
- Starts new companies that grow new jobs
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DID YOU KNOW?
In the past year, UTRF signed 22 new license and option agreements and worked with the inventors to start nine new companies. We also collected more than $1.4 million in revenue, received 23 new U.S. patents and managed 144 new inventions.