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)
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UTRF Inventor Spotlight: Dr. Jonathan Wall
A “team effort” for discovering how to diagnose and treat amyloidosis, a rare protein-folding disorder. Amyloidosis is a rare disorder that occurs when an abnormal amyloid protein deposits in organs and tissues, interfering with their ability to function normally. There are approximately 30 different types of amyloidosis, and the disease can either be systemic or (read more)
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)