New Compliance Director Aims to Train, Protect, Support Campus Community In 2010 shortly after moving to Arizona to work at the University of Arizona, SevaPriya Barrier registered to vote using the application form available on campus. Her registration was rejected for failure to provide proof of citizenship, even though the application did not require it.… Read More
Ten years ago, Dr. Doug Dixon, encountered a patient he would never forget. The man had been referred to Dixon, associate dean of Bioscience Research and professor in the University of Tennessee Health Sciences College of Dentistry, for periodontal disease treatment, but what he discovered was far more serious. A large mass was in the… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Advisory Board will meet Friday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m., in the Mooney Library, 875 Monroe Ave., on the Memphis campus. On the agenda: While the meeting will be conducted in person, it will also be available to view online. The webcast link, more information about the UT Health Sciences… Read More
The Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, the Memphis area’s only pro-bono pediatric occupational therapy center, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The center, staffed by students under the supervision of licensed occupational therapy practitioners, has served hundreds of families across the Mid-South. This week, the Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy… Read More
In the lab, promising results often lead to more questions than a researcher has the resources to answer. For Mona Kazemi Sabzvar, a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, preliminary findings in her research on blood cancer pointed toward an additional avenue worth exploring. She had ideas for the experiments that could… Read More
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences are part of a team working to move a promising antiviral drug one step closer to being tested in humans. The team has received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct studies needed to prepare the drug candidate called BDGR-354, also known… Read More
Twenty-five years ago, Jianfeng Xiao, MD, PhD, was a postdoctoral researcher in Bonn, Germany, when an unexpected phone call changed the direction of his career. A neurologist at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences in Memphis had read one of Dr. Xiao’s papers and wanted to talk to him about a very unusual rat. “He… Read More
More than 60% of U.S. adults used a dietary supplement in the past 30 days between August 2021 and August 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, many of them sorting through claims pushed by TikTok influencers, trendy wellness products and performance enhancers that often reach the market without FDA approval. To… Read More
