By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA EDP Biotech Corporation, a Knoxville company that develops and commercializes convenient, cost-effective diagnostics which detect disease early, is one of six start-ups invited to pitch in the diagnostics track during next week’s “MedCity INVEST” virtual forum. Described as the “premier national healthcare investing

If you’ve ever done state government relations work as I did during part of my first career, there are several key milestones during the legislative session. One is the submission of the Governor’s amendment to the budget submitted earlier in the session. Yesterday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the priorities

The BioTN Foundation, which assumed responsibility for the former Life Science TN Mentor Network after the two organizations announced a strategic alliance in 2019, has named a new Executive Director. Steven King, Principal at Ntelligent Growth Consulting, succeeds Jim Monsor who is stepping down from his day-to-day operations of the

Launch Tennessee has announced a 90-minute virtual session scheduled for next week that is focused on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. The session, running from 2 to 3:30 p.m. EDT April 20, will feature Peter Atherton, NSF’s SBIR/STTR

Can the leader of an intellectual property generator have a real impact when it comes to kickstarting the creation of start-ups from those inventions? Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University, certainly has as described in this article. Prior to his arrival at the West Lafayette, IN institution, Purdue was averaging eight

Momentum Learning and American Underground, both based in Research Triangle, are launching a twice monthly Club on the social platform Clubhouse. The program, which launches at 12 noon EDT this Friday (April 16), is focused on Raleigh/Durham start-ups. Each session will feature one local entrepreneur sharing a ‘How I built X’

By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA Leviathan Affordable Aquarium Automation, a company that makes circuit boards to help check chemical levels of the water in fish tanks, won this year’s “What’s the Big Idea? Pitch Festival” (WTBI) along with the $10,000 grand prize. This year’s competition, held

Nghia Chiem, a long-time member of the team of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) in Knoxville, is joining the University of Alabama (UA) as Director of the Office for Innovation and Commercialization. A former Senior Scientist at Protein Discovery Inc., a Knoxville life sciences start-up founded by Chuck

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center‘s “Pitch for Good” series is returning with the “Black Founders Edition” set for 12 noon CDT on April 29. Applications are being accepted through 11:59 p.m. CDT on April 22. Click here for eligibility criteria and the application.

John Hopkins, Chief Executive Officer for the Knoxville-headquartered Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), has earned a spot on Smart Manufacturing magazine’s “25 Leaders Transforming Manufacturing” list. The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) credited Hopkins and his fellow honorees with revolutionizing the pace and scope of technological adoption of smart manufacturing