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More than 200 attended the Life Science Tennessee Annual Conference - a record number! From a commercialization panel with representatives from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital & Vanderbilt University, to trending innovations by New Day Diagnostics & Helix Biotech, Inc. The conference highlighted the GREAT works in #Bioscience & #BioTech across the state! Read more ?? https://lnkd.in/eYjQMBbX

Congratulations to AESSEAL Inc. North American Headquarters for winning the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council "Thomas B Ballard Advanced Energy Leadership Award." Each year, TAEBC presents the award to a state or local leader who exemplifies the tireless work of?Thomas B. Ballard, the editor of?teknovation.biz and the Chief Alliance Officer for?PYA. Through three careers, he has been an unparalleled leader, educator, mentor, and advocate of Tennessee’s advanced energy economy. Read more about AESSEAL: https://lnkd.in/eFFx88Hh

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The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council's "Opportunities in Energy" event welcomed some of the top energy leaders in the state. The CEO panel, featuring Jeff Lyash at Tennessee Valley Authority, Jean-Luc Palayer of Orano USA, and Matt Kisber at Silicon Ranch Corporation took a broad look at how the energy industry is driving our state. #Energy ? https://lnkd.in/eF_7hThk

Megan O'Connor, Co-Founder and CEO of?Nth Cycle, has been named to?TIME’s 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business. O'Connor was a former participant in the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her company is now based in #Boston. “Being included among such a remarkable group of visionaries is humbling, and I only wish there were room for a few hundred more... I’d like to thank each of them, and the remarkable team at Nth Cycle for the progress we’ve made — and will keep making — together," she said. https://lnkd.in/egQuqkQ3

A Knoxville team, led by Kuntal De Ph.D. won the fall 2024 Scipreneur Challenge in Nashville. His company, PAN Biologics is developing cutting-edge biologics solutions that target the signaling pathways for cancer therapies. BioTN Foundation Inc. hosted the bi-annual challenge to allow participants to get a feel for what it is like to develop a business plan for a life sciences or biotech invention. Life Science Tennessee. Read more ? https://lnkd.in/e42qPB69

Tennessee’s advanced energy (AE) sector generates $55.9 billion in state GDP. AE jobs make up 15% of the state's workforce. Specifically, in the Knoxville MSA, nearly 70,000 jobs generate about $4.9 billion in payroll annually. Check out the infographic from the TAEBC ??? Read more from the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) economic impact report: https://lnkd.in/eapP_qhj

In a field predominately led by men,?Suba Raj, the founder of?IonTech Energy Solutions is proving that women, too, can lead in the battery space ?? She is a participant in the Spark Cleantech Accelerator at Spark Innovation Center at the UT Research Park, bringing more than 20 years of experience working in oil & gas. Suba shares her personal passion for why sustainable alternatives are so important ? https://lnkd.in/e9xtcCpM

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Corps program came to a close yesterday. Nine teams presented their findings from 20+ customer discovery interviews. Next step ? bring those discoveries from the lab to the marketplace! Rob Coleman & Marc Nabhan, Ph.D. led the program with participants including Alec Readel, Dustin Crouch, PhD, Ryan S. Ginder, Ph.D., Hugh Shortt, Kuntal De Ph.D., Peyman Zandifaez, and Steven Newby, MS, PhD. Read more about each innovation: https://lnkd.in/ev-Y7Fij

For every 10 articles of clothing, about four are sold at full price, three at a reduced price, and three are never sold. Brian Iezzi wants to make sure that "deadstock" doesn't end up in landfills. His company Fibarcode is a participant in the Innovation Crossroads at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Through the program, he is developing an invisible fiber to help textile recycling companies identify high-quality materials. ? Read more: https://lnkd.in/eii7ZinX