Lexi Applequist and Lance Cordes Awarded Office of Entrepreneurship Graduate Entrepreneurial Fellowship
- balalabuark
- Sep 9, 2024
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Sep. 09, 2024
Ten students have been named Graduate Entrepreneurial Fellows, the most since the program launched in 2021, and they will be pursuing intensive entrepreneurial training across diverse industries, including biomedical engineering, food science, information systems and finance.
Led by the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the fellowship program is intended to support promising graduate students from all disciplines in the pursuit of scalable, technology-based ventures.
Fellows devote at least 20 hours per week to entrepreneurial pursuits and gain opportunities for intensive mentoring and networking, access to seed funding and business model development.
"We're thrilled to welcome this new cohort of Graduate Entrepreneurial Fellows to our program," said Phil Shellhammer, executive director of OEI. "Their commitment to innovation across diverse industries is a testament to the entrepreneurial spirit thriving here at the University of Arkansas. We are deeply grateful to the Walton Family Foundation for their generous support, which has made this program possible and continues to empower our students to pursue transformative, scalable ventures."
Lexi Applequist
Degree program: College of Engineering, doctorate
Discipline: biomedical engineering
Faculty adviser: Kartik Balachandran
Entrepreneurial focus: Designing and commercializing organ-mimicking research platforms for streamlining drug testing in pharmaceutical companies to reduce animal testing and create more inclusive and accessible healthcare.
Lance Cordes
Degree program: College of Engineering, master's
Discipline: biomedical engineering
Faculty adviser: Kartik Balachandran
Entrepreneurial focus: Improving disease modeling and new pharmaceutical drug efficacy by commercializing organ-on-a-chip devices for industry.
Contacts
Brandon Howard, communications manager
Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
479-418-4803, bjhoward@uark.edu
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