Bode Olukolu is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who co-founded a startup, BASEwise Solutions, to bring to market his technology, OmeSeq-qRRS, a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based reduced representation sequencing (RRS) platform for genotyping and metagenome profiling. Unlike other approaches, Olukolu’s technology only sequences a (read more)
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UTRF Joins SEC Collaboration to Match Entrepreneurial Talent with University Startups
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) is joining technology transfer offices across all 14 SEC schools to address a common challenge: building strong startup management teams that attract the eye of early-stage investors. Together the universities are launching the Southeast Executives-on-Roster (XOR) platform, which matches experienced entrepreneurial talent with university-affiliated startups in need of (read more)
UTRF Facilitates Commercial Opportunities for CURENT
UTRF is working with researchers at a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) to help commercialize the next wave of innovations that promise to transform our country’s power grid.