October 1, 2013, Avon Foundation for Women, in partnership with the National Cancer Institute and the Center for Advancing Innovation, kicked off a nationwide start-up challenge.
Much is underway in Tennessee to promote and support the life sciences industry including its underlying sources of support: research, scientists and entrepreneurship.
One quarter into the new fiscal year, more than a dozen Vanderbilt technologies have been awarded patent protection by the USPTO. The four newest, which were issued throughout the month of September, include: