The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) is announcing a call for submissions for its 16th annual maturation program. The UTRF Technology Maturation Grant aims to assist innovators in advancing new technologies on the path to market by awarding up to $20,000 in direct costs to the highest ranking proposals. The program is open to (read more)
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Inventor Spotlight: Duane Miller
Over the past 90 years, the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) has collaborated with many groundbreaking innovators. Among these is Duane Miller, professor emeritus at the UT Health Science Center. A beloved faculty member of the College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences from 1992 to 2015, Miller also served as the department chair (read more)
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)