According to a report by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the UTHSC College of Pharmacy has received $19.2 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2022. It now ranks No. 6 on the list of 140 member institutions – up from No. 12 the previous year. The (read more)
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UTRF celebrates entrepreneurship during Innov865 Week 2023, UT startup secures award at pitch competition
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is proud to support a culture of entrepreneurship across the University of Tennessee System. In keeping with its mission, UTRF wants to help move ideas to the marketplace to benefit the people of Tennessee and beyond. UTRF is a Founding Member of the Innov865 Alliance, a coalition dedicated to (read more)
UTRF startup, BASEwise Solutions advance quantitative genotyping and metagenome profiling
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)