Perseverance, passion, and partnership are three words to describe the work of Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller, researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who have spent the last decade and a half studying treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive, lethal form of brain cancer. We had gotten close to being funded, but (read more)
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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)
UTRF Maturation Grant Funding Program Selects 11 Projects for 2023, Helps Researchers Advance UT Technology
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s annual Maturation Grant Funding program helps UT innovators advance new technologies on their path to market. Open to all researchers, faculty, staff and students across UT campuses and institutes, the Maturation Grant program provides up to $15,000 to winning proposals. In 2023, UTRF maturation grants funded 11 innovations, including (read more)


