With support from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Cong Trinh, Ph.D. is developing a scalable biomanufacturing platform that could help industries produce high-value industrial chemicals from renewable resources instead of petroleum. A professor of chemical engineering and Ferguson Faculty Fellow in the Tickle College of Engineering at UT Knoxville, Trinh is engineering programmable microbial “cell factories” that transform agricultural feedstocks into high-value chemicals. (read more)
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Advancing Hydrogen Generation and Energy Storage Through Next-Generation Electrolyzers
Used globally in transportation, industrial processes and energy storage systems, hydrogen is emerging as a critical fossil fuel alternative to meet rising energy demands. With global demand for green hydrogen projected to increase more than twenty-fold to a $230 billion industry by 2035, improving efficiency and reducing production costs is becoming increasingly urgent. To meet (read more)
Innovator Spotlight: Meet UT’s Newest Entrepreneur Scientist: Dr. Sudeshna Roy
How strategic schedules, synergy, and AI modeling are fueling modern drug discovery at the UTHSC School of Pharmacy Can you put a breakthrough on a schedule? An old adage says no, but Dr. Sudeshna Roy, primary investigator of the Roy Lab at UT Health Science Center, seems to be able to schedule everything else. “They (read more)