A Mission for Making Good Medicine The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF), the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), and biotech therapeutics startup Anviron recently announced a partnership to commercialize a novel treatment with promising efficacy against pancreatic cancer tumors. According to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center, the total number of (read more)
Entrepreneurship
UTRF Startup Developing Next-Generation Devices for Endoscopy
A technology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, lies at the heart of a startup company creating next-generation medical devices for flexible endoscopy. EndoTheia harnesses the power of intelligently micro-machined materials to create highly dexterous manipulators, adding flexibility that increases therapeutic yields in complex endoscopic procedures. The company’s devices supplement widely used and commercially available (read more)
UTRF Welcomes James Parrett
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) is pleased to announce that James Parrett has joined the organization as a Technology Manager at its Memphis office. At UTRF, James will be involved in all aspects of the technology transfer process, including building relationships with research groups across the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus (read more)