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07/15/2026 | News release | Distributed by Public on 07/15/2026 08:51

UT Health Sciences News – From Honeymoon to Pitch Table: UT Health Sciences Graduate Student Embodies ‘Discovery to Impact’

On June 18, CJ Rudolph landed in Memphis at 1 a.m. after nearly 24 hours of travel home from his honeymoon. By mid-day, he was standing before a room of researchers, investors and industry leaders pitching a medical device he had spent three years developing.

Hours later, the third-year University of Tennessee Health Sciences biomedical engineering PhD student walked away with $5,000 in seed funding.

Read more on the UT Health Sciences News website.

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