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Life Science Mentor Network Grows
Today, we held an orientation for new mentors of the Life Science Network. Now in its fifth year, the Life Science Network pairs leading life science executives with promising new companies while leveraging the knowledge and resources of our state’s accelerator programs. The purpose of the program is to develop quality startups that will fuel the growth of the life science industry in Tennessee.
Mentors include life science experts with C-level, executive experience and subject-matter expertise. We now have more than 75 mentors accessible to young startups. Welcome to our new mentors!
Dave Ohlwein – Butler Snow
Andrew Benesh – Benesh Consulting
David Moroney – Blue Cross Blue Shield
Stryker Warren – Vanderbilt University
Denise Bash – The Lockwood Group
Kurtis Parker – Raymond James
Ryan Ramkhelawan – CleanEndo, LLC
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SBIR/STTR Lunch & Learns
This week, Launch Tennessee is hosting another round of lunch and learns on Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) grants. Here are upcoming workshops in a city near you:
- July 11, 2019
Knoxville Entrepreneur Center
17 Market Square, Suite 101, Knoxville, TN 37902
11:30am-1pm ET
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- July 11, 2019
Fisk University
Cravath Hall (Second Floor Board Room)
1000 17th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37208
11:30am-1pm CT
REGISTER
- July 12, 2019
The Edney Innovation Center
Floor Five Community Space
1100 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
11:30am-1pm ET
REGISTER
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LST Member Opportunities
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- Patents2Products Fellowship Program: The University of Memphis and Epicenter have partnered to create a new program designed to hire post-doc fellows to start businesses, using patented intellectual property developed both in Memphis and across the United States. Starting this fall, Patents2Products Post-Doc program creates a two-year funded position for research entrepreneurs and provides them with the necessary tools for a launching a successful startup. For more information or to apply, click here.
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- *NEW* Nashville Business Incubation Center: On July 23, attend this event to understand how to take advantage of these SBIR contract opportunities for small businesses. A host of high-level speakers will make this an exciting event. In addition, networking will be available with potential resources and project partners. You do not want to miss this impactful training and networking opportunity. For more information and to register, click here.
- Genetic Technologies for All Classrooms (GTAC): GTAC is a five-day national professional development academy at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology that prepares science educators to address high school level genetics, genomics, and biotech content such as cancer and clinical genomics, common complex disease, and agricultural genomics. The 2019 GTAC: National will be held July 22-26. Register now.
- 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival: 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival brings together the best innovators and difference-makers for two days of networking, programming, and entertainment on the latest in technology and entrepreneurship. By design, 36|86 is a launching point to greater things for you and your business. Join us in downtown Nashville, Aug. 28-29, and make your next move. Get your ticket today.
- The MedTech Conference: From Sept. 23-25, more than 3,000 of the world’s top medtech executives will gather in Boston, MA, for the leading event in our industry—the MedTech Conference. Featuring world‑class plenary speakers, cross‑cutting educational programming, valuable networking and business development opportunities, The MedTech Conference is a must‑attend event for the industry’s prominent and most promising companies. Register now.
- SEBIO Forum: The Southeast BIO (SEBIO) Investor & Partnering Forum will be held Nov. 6-7 at The Biltmore in Miami-Coral Gables, FL. The conference provides an unparalleled opportunity to meet key decisionmakers in the regional and national life science and medical technology communities. Register today.
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LST News
Memphis-based Good Shepherd Pharmacy has added the University of Memphis’ UMRF Research Park to a network that is combating the expense of medication. Launched in October 2018, Good Shepherd’s RemediChain consortium uses blockchain technology to track medications that otherwise would go to waste with a network of prescription repositories, health care organizations, and higher education institutions. To date, RemediChain has received $1.1 million worth of donated oral chemotherapy medications, and those drugs have gone to patients in financial need.
The report includes technology-transfer activities for Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Economic Research Service (ERS), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Forest Service (FS), National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Rural Development (RD).
FDA said companies should try to resolve disputes with CDRH before a formal regulatory decision is made, and companies can use the device center's ombudsman to help mediate any dispute. AdvaMed, which submitted the only substantive comment on the proposed rule, praised the appeal process as a "fundamental mechanism" to understand FDA's decision-making. Under the final rule, companies have 30 days after a CDRH decision to appeal for supervisory review. FDA then has 30 days to schedule an in-person meeting or teleconference review if it is requested. After an in-person meeting, FDA is required to make a decision within 30 days. For teleconference reviews, it must issue a decision within 45 days.
ETSU pharmacy students earn research awards
Two students at East Tennessee State University’s Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy recently earned national research awards. Yaa Anane (class of ’20), from Arlington, Texas, was one of eight students across the nation who were selected as Student and Trainee Abstract Award winners by the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology. Sarah Gentry (’21), from Niota, Tennessee, received a $5,000 American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Gateway to Research Award, which will help support her work with Dr. Nick Hagemeier, associate professor of Pharmacy Practice, on investigating ways to enrich pharmacy students’ well being.
14 Chattanooga students win big at national SkillsUSA competition
Fourteen local students received some of the nation's highest awards in career and technical education at the 2019 SkillsUSA Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, last month. In total, 42 students from Tennessee's 12 technical and community colleges won more than 42 medals at the national competition. Career and technical education students in high schools also participate in the competitions, alongside students attending post-secondary institutions. This year, 22 Tennessee high school students won medals at the national championships, according to a news release.
Rickey McCallum named Vice President at UT Research Park
Rickey McCallum has been named a Vice President of the University of Tennessee (UT) Research Park, according to Tom Rogers, the organization’s President and Chief Executive Officer. The former Associate Director for Industry Engagement and Strategic Research Partnerships in UT’s Office of Corporate and Foundation Engagement served in that role for five years before joining the UT Research Park team July 1. McCallum previously worked for TVA and a number of other private companies in the region.
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