A startup formed around technology from the University of Tennessee College of Social Work’s Center for Behavioral Health Research is helping young adults who struggle with cannabis use disorder (CUD) and other types of substance use. At Behavioral Labs, participants struggling with CUD or use of other substances enroll in a program where they receive (read more)
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UTRF Internship Program at UTHSC Offers Opportunity to Use Scientific Research Experience in a Non-Traditional Manner
For the past seven years, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s internship program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has given participants an inside look at the tech transfer process from initial discovery to commercial product in the health science field. Due to the pandemic, the six-month long program has gone virtual. (read more)
From Discovery to Biopharmaceutical Startup: UTGSM Innovators Demonstrate Progress in Therapeutics for Systemic Amyloidosis
A team of researchers from the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine has spent more than two decades investigating systemic amyloidosis, a rare and often fatal disorder with few treatments. Their work played an integral role in moving discoveries out of the lab and into clinical trials, helping launch a biopharmaceutical company focused on (read more)