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Linking Utah's Innovation Community
All Star Innovators
USTAR has funded research teams at the University of Utah and Utah State University. These teams are led by world-class innovators who are hungry to collaborate with industry to develop and commercialize new technologies. These highly talented and respected researchers have vast experience raising millions of dollars in research funding, building world-class research teams, and forming new ventures based off their respective technologies. Here's a list of some of the key contributors:
Foster Agblevor, Synthetic Bio-Manufacturing
Bob Barson, Center for Advanced Sensing and Imaging (CASI)
Aravind Dasu, Intuitive and Solar Buildings
Michael Lefevre, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Nutrition
Randy Lewis, Synthetic Bio-Manufacturing
Alan Marchant, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Sensing and Imaging (CASI)
Irina Polejaeva, Veterinary Diagnostics & Infectious Disease (VDID)
Orly Alter, Ph.D., Brain Imaging Technology
Craig Caldwell, Ph.D., Digital Media
Li Dai, Ph.D., Circuits of the Brain
Alan Dorval II, Ph.D. Biomedical Device Innovation
P. Thomas Fletcher, Ph.D., Brain Imaging Technology
Guido Gerig, Ph.D., Brain Imaging Technology
Hamid Ghandehari, Ph.D., Biomedical Device Innovation
Mark Ji, Ph.D., Nanoscale & Biomedical Photonic Imaging
Hanseup (Steve) Kim, Micro & Nano Systems Integration
Doug Kondo, M.D., Diagnostic Neuroimaging
Julie Korenberg, Ph.D., Circuits of the Brain
Gianluca Lazzi, Ph.D., Wireless Nanosystems
Melissa Lopez-Larson, M.D., Diagnostic Neuroimaging
Rajesh Menon, Ph.D., Micro & Nano Systems Integration
Manoranjan Misra, Ph.D., Carbon Engineering
Carlos Mastrangelo, Ph.D., IT Networking & Memory
John McLennan, Ph.D., Carbon Engineering
Brian J. McPherson, Ph.D., Carbon Engineering
Marc Porter, Ph.D., Nanotechnology Biosensors
Perry Renshaw, M.D., Diagnostic Imaging
Saveez Saffarian, Nanoscale & Biomedical Photonic Imaging
Massood Tabib-Azar, Wireless Nanosystems
Tolga Tasdizen, Ph.D., Brain Imaging Technology
Matt Wachowiak, Ph.D., Nanoscale & Biomedical Photonic Imaging
John White, Ph.D., Biomedical Device
Darrin Young, Ph.D., Wireless Nanosystems
Ling Zang , Ph.D., Nanotechnology Biosensors