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)
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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)
UTRF’s Commercialization Analyst Program Goes Virtual, Offers Unique Commercialization Insight
For the past nine years, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s internship program has offered valuable career experience to UT law students, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers interested in the commercialization process of innovations from the University of Tennessee. This year, the program has gone virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Interns in UTRF’s Commercialization (read more)