One of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s four key mission areas is encouraging an entrepreneurial culture across the UT System. At the UT Health Science Center, two UTRF team members support this mission by teaching the next generation of entrepreneurs in the redesigned “Entrepreneurship in Pharm/Biomedical Science” graduate course, listed as PHAC 832 and (read more)
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Knoxville startup ThermaMatrix developing cost-effective, non-destructive solutions for manufacturers
Ryan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ThermaMatrix, has known he wanted to engineer since high school. His old truck had broken down, and instead of taking it to the auto repair shop and spending thousands of dollars he did not have as a teenager, he decided to buy the parts and fix the (read more)
Employee Spotlight: CeCe Ging and Emma Vetland
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation recently welcomed two new team members. CeCe Ging joins as the Staff Attorney, while Emma Vetland joins as an Assistant Technology Manager. Originally from Lebanon, Tennessee, Ging received her bachelor’s in chemistry and biochemistry from Washington University in St. Louis and her law degree from the University of Tennessee (read more)


