UTA drives entrepreneurship ecosystem in North Texas

2016 Tech Titans Inventors awardee and University of Texas at Arlington chemistry Professor Purnendu “Sandy” Dasgupta has been described as a “patent-making machine.” But he is more than that.  Three of his inventions are an integral part of chromatograph machines, which are widely used to analyze the content of complex mixtures in fields as varied as forensic testing, doping analysis, pharmaceutical development and even nuclear power. Annual sales of these machines surpass $2 billion worldwide.  “We have developed a very long-term relationship with multinational ThermoFisher