Category: Research

UT Research Foundation Honors Innovators Advancing Discovery, Commercialization, and Economic Growth

Written by Lee Ferguson

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Research
2025 Innovation Awards

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) recently recognized some of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s innovators, whose research is generating new intellectual property, licenses, and startup companies, reflecting the depth of discovery at the university and the growing momentum behind its innovation portfolio. The 2025 Innovation Awards luncheon for UT Health Sciences… Read More

Tennessee Health Leaders Visit UT Health Sciences for ‘Conversation Among Partners’

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical CarePublic ServiceResearch

“It is good to be here and partner with you,” Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dunn, DVM, PhD, said during a visit to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Memphis campus Thursday, Dec. 11. Commissioner Dunn and members of his leadership team came to Memphis to officially present three rural health grants to… Read More

College of Medicine’s Knoxville Campus Embraces New Name in Line with Academic Expansion

Written by Chris Green

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Clinical CareEducationResearch
Photo of a physician and two medical students in an exam room.

For the last several years, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s medical campus in Knoxville operated with a name it had outgrown, according to the campus’s dean. On October 1, that changed. Now officially the College of Medicine – Knoxville, the campus has stepped into a new identity that reflects its expanding role in… Read More

A Lifelong Passion for Research and Discovery

Written by Nathan Ball

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EducationResearch
Dr. Duane Miller Portrait

“New discoveries in science are more important to me than money.” That’s how researcher Duane Miller, PhD, describes the passion that has driven his career. “You can’t understand the excitement you have when you find out that one of your drugs works the way you think it should, or you get a surprise, the fact… Read More

Impact Awards Commend UT Health Science Excellence Across State

Written by Allyson Lawson

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Clinical CareEducationPublic ServiceResearch
The winner holding his award and posing against the UTHSC Impact Awards backdrop

“The energy yesterday and the energy today makes me feel like if I come in tomorrow and then Sunday, those days will also have some great energy happening around here,” Chancellor Peter Buckley, MD, said Dec. 12 of recent celebratory events, opening the 2025 Impact Awards at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Attendees… Read More

UT Health Sciences Researchers Demonstrate Breakthroughs in Cancer Treatment Quality Through AI-Enhanced Data Analytics

Written by Communications and Marketing

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Clinical CareResearch
Dr. David Schwartz headshot

Cancer researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have published three groundbreaking studies demonstrating how advanced artificial intelligence and population health analytics can identify and address barriers to quality cancer care. Funded by a Practice Transformation and Enhancement grant from the Tennessee Department of Health, the work documents key technical steps leading to… Read More

Prioritizing Partnership and Progress, Dr. Karen Derefinko Guides Faculty Senate Forward

Written by Chris Green

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EducationPublic ServiceResearch
Dr. Karen Derefinko speaking at the podium at a Faculty Senate meeting

When Karen Derefinko, PhD, talks about her work, there is a theme that comes up again and again: people working together can solve almost anything. This principle is what first drew her into clinical psychology, what motivates her research today, and what shapes her goals as president of the Faculty Senate at the University of… Read More

New Chair of UT-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering Continues Legacy, Looks Toward Future

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical CareEducationResearch
Headshot of Dr. Frederick Azar

Frederick M. Azar, MD, a longtime Memphis orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine, has been named the new Harold Boyd Chair of the UT Health Science Center-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The chief of staff at Campbell Clinic… Read More