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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:

 

  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)

Jeff Muhs, Biofuels

Kent Tobiska, Space Weather

David Ward, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Nutrition

  David York, Ph.D., Center for Advanced Nutrition


 

Scott Anderson, Alternative Energy

 Craig Caldwell, Ph.D., Digital Media

Alan Dorval II, Ph.D. Biomedical Device Innovation

Dr. Gerig  Guido Gerig, Ph.D., Imaging Technology

  Hamid Ghandehari, Ph.D., Biomedical Device Innovation

  P. Thomas Fletcher, Ph.D., Imaging Technology

Julie R. Korenberg, Ph.D.  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

Safeez 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

  Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D., Diagnostic Imaging

Ling Zang , Ph.D., Nanotechnology Biosensors