UTHSC-Graduate School of Medicine’s Alan Solomon inducted into the 2023 Hall of Fame, UTHSC’s Ramesh Narayanan named 2023 Innovator of the Year At its annual Innovation Awards, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation celebrated 89 years of university innovation and impact. UTRF recognized 5 startups, 40 executed commercialization agreements, and 46 issued patents at the (read more)
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Inventor Spotlight: Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller
Perseverance, passion, and partnership are three words to describe the work of Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller, researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who have spent the last decade and a half studying treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive, lethal form of brain cancer. We had gotten close to being funded, but (read more)
Long-term vision and partnership: UTRF startup to develop next-generation RNA medicines using a novel drug delivery system
Around a decade ago, a researcher at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine (UTSGM) and a graduate student in her lab began to imagine creating a company based on a technology they were developing. In 2022, their initial dream became a reality. They launched Orion Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup company developing next-generation RNA (read more)