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UMRF Research Park Holds Research-Industry Intersection Series

Connecting and facilitating collaborations

The University's research park, UMRF, located at 460 South Highland, hosts a community of companies from a variety of sectors. These companies have chosen the research park because they believe in the value of engaging closely with the region's only comprehensive research institution, both to cultivate top-tier workforce pipelines but also because advanced research collaborations can strengthen their competitive advantage. This opportunity works in both ways, enabling UofM faculty to build partnerships with these companies to advance their research and create opportunities for strong, externally-funded grant proposals. 

To facilitate these partnerships, the UMRF Research Park will hold a monthly series where we invite the UofM community to the park to hear about one of our citizen companies and brainstorm around some the challenges facing them in their pursuit of growth. We are excited to announce the first part of this series: 

  • Friday, September 16 | NOON: Preteckt - Preteckt is an AI and IoT company focused on maintenance to increase vehicle availability, improve safety, reduce costs, support maintenance staff, and enable the future of work. They are partners in developing next generation sustainable fuel vehicle technology and help service providers transition from legacy to green technologies. Maintenance, maintainers, and digital workflow is their initial focus area.
  • Tuesday, October 8 | 12:30 PM: PopCheck Technologies - Postoperative care and monitoring for patients after surgery is often undervalued. However, It is during this time that most patients will experience complications, and often, after discharge from the hospital. Of these complications, one of the most common, potentially life-threatening yet preventable, is the development of venous clots. At PopCheck Technologies, they are developing a novel device that will not only more efficiently prevent venous clots, but unlike any device before it, provide a means to predict the early development of clots using biomarker patterns of venous blood flow and thrombosis.
  • Thursday, November 17 | 1 PM: Code Crew – Is changing Memphis with programs that focus on ensuring that students are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and they learn how to put this knowledge to use through programming and software development concepts. CodeCrew programming includes a number of summer camps, after school programs, in-school electives classes, internships and special events. Since May 2015, CodeCrew has taught more than 2,000 students to code through summer camps, after-school programs, in-school electives, and special events. Of the 500 kids served weekly, 91% are black and Latinx youth, 41% are girls who code, and overall, 89% of students are more likely to study computer science.

 

To RSVP to any of these sessions, contact Research Development at researchdev@memphis.edu.