The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute recently awarded six grants to UT faculty members leading research to advance UT-ORII’s circular bioeconomy systems and radiopharmaceutical therapies convergent research initiatives. UT-ORII’s CRIs are emerging areas of strength for both UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Each of the selected research efforts will receive about $75,000.
Amanda May – Combined Impacts of Microplastics and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) on Metabolomic Functions of Bioenergy Crop Rhizosphere Bacteria
Nour Abdoulmoumine – CO2 Valorization to Bio-Derived Chemicals and Polymer Precursors
Ivan Popov – Development of Next-Generation Lignin-Derived BioVitrimers with Dynamic Covalent Networks for Circular Recycling Systems
Sue Chin Lee (UTHSC) – Establishing Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Cell Models to Evaluate the Therapeutic Efficacy of Alpha-Particle Therapy
Joshua Baccile – Development of Novel 89Zr Chelators Towards Enhanced PET Imaging Applications
Michael Danquah – Radiolabeled Aptamers for Targeted CD19 Theranostics in Early-Stage B Cell Malignancies
