What if the next generation of automotive components, food packaging and construction materials began on Tennessee farmland? Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) are working to make that vision a reality at the UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) Center for Renewable Carbon (CRC), developing plant-based technologies that could create new markets for farmers, strengthen rural manufacturing and reduce reliance on (read more)
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From Lab to Lifesaving Impact: UTRF is Advancing UT’ Health Innovation in Tennessee and Beyond
In laboratories, clinics and startup companies across Tennessee, innovators from the University of Tennessee (UT) are developing technologies that could transform how diseases are diagnosed and treated. From artificial intelligence that can interpret the hidden signals inside a heartbeat to experimental drugs designed to overcome treatment-resistant cancers, these innovations are moving from university laboratories into the hands of clinicians and patients with support (read more)
From Lab Bench to Breakthrough: How a UT Mentor-Student Partnership Sparked a Rising East Tennessee Biotech Company
When Trey Fisher, PhD, walked into the vascular biology lab led by Deidra Mountain, PhD, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine – Knoxville more than a decade ago, he was a graduate student looking for a scientific challenge. He found one, and something more: the beginnings of a partnership that would one day spark a promising East Tennessee biotechnology company.