When Jim Sabatier earned his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi (UM), he knew one day he would put his research discoveries to commercial use. Now, 30 years later, he’s getting his shot at the school’s Innovation Hub at Insight Park, a 62,000-square-foot high-tech center that provides support and infrastructure to startup companies in the knowledge business, including biomedical and pharmaceutical industries.
Sabatier became the first tenant of the Innovation Hub with his company, Soair, an outgrowth of his life’s work as an acoustical physicist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics located on the university’s Oxford campus. Read the full story in the most recent issue of Pointe Innovation magazine by Jim Beaugez.