# I-RED Southeast XLerator Network

> **NIH NIH UT2** · XLERATEHEALTH, LLC · 2022 · $252,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
I-RED Southeast XLerator Network, powered by XLerateHealth, LLC in collaboration with the University of
Kentucky as the lead academic partner institution, proposes to develop a suite of experience-based
entrepreneurship education products and commercialization education tools to address the needs of
academic institutions and their faculty, researchers, innovators, and graduate/undergraduate students in the
Southeast IDeA states region. The ultimate aim of these entrepreneurship education and training products
is to foster the translation of promising biomedical discoveries and technologies from research laboratories
into the creation of commercial products which both improve human health and promote economic growth.
As a result, it will significantly enhance commercialization knowledge, mature the entrepreneurial
ecosystem, identify more market-ready technologies and patents, see more startup entities formed, increase
dilutive and non-dilutive funding to these entities, and accelerate the commercialization of biomedical and
health tech innovations in the region – with the fundamental goal of positively impacting human health and
patient’s lives.
This team has years of experience working with academic institutions, innovators, and healthcare startups
in the Southeast IDeA states region (including the previous NIGMS STTR IDeA Regional Technology
Transfer Accelerator award), developing extensive entrepreneurial educational content and delivering
entrepreneurial training to biomedical innovators aspiring to become entrepreneurs. Key team members
possess strong and diverse backgrounds that include education and training, technology transfer, clinical
practice, startup company creation, venture capital investing, building talent support systems, sales and
marketing, social media, and program and product development, among other disciplines. We will create
and deploy the most impactful educational products necessary to further advance the translation of
biomedical technologies being developed by academic researchers to the commercial marketplace.
I-RED Southeast XLerator Network will leverage its team’s experiences assessing, building, and working
with a wide network of highly diverse partners across each state and territory in the Southeast IDeA states
region, with a governance structure to optimize communication and ensure extensive prototype testing and
validation of unique educational programs and products that will address the needs identified through gap
assessment, and achieve strong engagement from our region’s innovators in those educational programs
and products.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10546610
- **Project number:** 1UT2GM148083-01
- **Recipient organization:** XLERATEHEALTH, LLC
- **Principal Investigator:** Eugene Krentsel
- **Activity code:** UT2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $252,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-08-15 → 2023-03-14

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10546610

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10546610, I-RED Southeast XLerator Network (1UT2GM148083-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10546610. Licensed CC0.

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