Smoking is one of the most prominent causes of preventable disease each year in the United States. According to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 57.3 million people reported tobacco or nicotine vaping use in the past month. Meanwhile, a 2017 study of smokers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (read more)
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UTRF Inventor Spotlight: Dr. Nawajes Mandal
UTHSC researcher studies sphingolipid signaling in ocular and neurodegenerative disease and diabetes Dr. Nawajes Mandal has spent his career at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) trying to better understand lipid and sphingolipid signaling in ocular and neurodegenerative disease and diabetes. One of his current projects may help slow the progression of retinal degeneration, (read more)
UTRF Develops Agreement Enabling Rapid, Long-term Collaboration with Moderna to Fight COVID-19
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation was hard at work facilitating relationships to connect groundbreaking research from University of Tennessee campuses and institutes with industry need. At the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, UTRF entered into a hybrid agreement with Moderna to leverage technology, expertise (read more)