The University of Tennessee System’s core mission is to serve Tennesseans and beyond through education, discovery, and outreach to enable economic, social, and environmental well-being. The UT Research Foundation is proud to support UT’s mission. UTRF serves as the bridge between groundbreaking research and the marketplace, transforming ideas into products and services that change lives. (read more)
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UTRF Welcomes Three New Interns and One Returning Intern
To promote the commercialization of UT’s innovations and to help train the next generation of commercialization professionals, UTRF recently welcomed three new interns and one returning intern across its Knoxville and Memphis offices. In Knoxville, Andrea Gutierrez-Cortez and Lauren Williams, rising second-year law students at UT Knoxville, joined the team as Commercialization Analysts. Jacob Hale (read more)
From Theory to Practice: Students Transform Decades-Old IP into Sound Dental Solution
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation celebrates and supports entrepreneurship across the UT System. One way UTRF does this is by working with students in the two-semester Senior Design course with UT Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering together with innovators at UT Health Science Center. UTRF has been sponsoring such projects over the past five (read more)