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Innovator Profile

Dr. Scott C. Lenaghan

Co-Director, Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology (CASB) and Associate Professor, Department of Food Science in UT Knoxville's College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Lenaghan serves as co-director of the Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology, along with Dr. Neal Stewart. His research has a primary focus on engineering biological systems, biomaterials, and devices that utilize cutting-edge synthetic biology tools and approaches.​

Available Technologies

  • Episomal Plasmid (Minicircle) Plant Engineering System​
    Researchers at the University of Tennessee have developed a novel approach for expressing one or more genes of interest in chloroplasts. Episomal DNA ... (read more)
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