Linking Utah's Innovation Community
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:

Bob Barson, Center for Advanced Sensing and Imaging (CASI)
Allen Howard, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Sensing and Imaging (CASI)
Michael Lefevre, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Nutrition
Alan Marchant, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Sensing and Imaging (CASI)
David Ward, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Nutrition
David York, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Nutrition
Craig Caldwell, Ph.D., Digital Media
Alan Dorval II, Ph.D. Biomedical Device Innovation
Guido Gerig, Ph.D., Imaging Technology
Hamid Ghandehari, Ph.D., Biomedical Device Innovation
P. Thomas Fletcher, Ph.D., Imaging Technology
Julie Korenberg, Ph.D., Circuits of the Brain
Gianluca Lazzi, Ph.D., Wireless Nanosystems
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., Imaging Technology
John White, Ph.D., Biomedical Device
Darrin Young, Ph.D., Wireless Nanosystems