The third Family Campaign reached 765 donors, exceeding its original goal of 700. This also surpasses last year’s Family Campaign by 141 donors. The monthlong campaign, launched September 1, encouraged the UT Health Science Center family to support the university and its mission by donating a financial gift of any size. This year, residents and… Read More
Despite heavy rain, faculty and staff converged in the Schreier Auditorium at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center last Friday morning for the first in a series of town halls with the university’s Executive Leadership Team. The session was designed to give the campus community the opportunity to ask questions and present issues in a very… Read More
Three investigators from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are part of a team of scientists from around the country who developed a novel single-cell technology that could eventually lead to more targeted therapies for cancer. Neil Hayes, MD, professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the College of Medicine and director… Read More
When Sarah Asemota, MD, PhD, got notification that a paper on which she is the lead author would be published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), it marked her sixth publication in a prolific two-year period at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Sarah is a postdoctoral cancer… Read More
Minjeong Kim, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, earned first place at the 2024 National Cancer Institute (NCI) Junior Investigator Annual Meeting for her podium talk focused on unraveling key genetic mutations in lung cancer. The meeting, held August 22 and 23 on the National Institutes of Health’s campus… Read More
New research by a multinational team of scientists including two from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center reveals agriculture shaped human evolution by drastically boosting our ability to digest carbohydrates. Associate Professor Erik Garrison, PhD, and postdoctoral scholar Andrea Guarracino, PhD, both in the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, worked with researchers from… Read More
Jessica Snowden, MD, did not set out to be a scientist. The new vice chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center initially planned to be a pediatrician and a teacher. That is, until an infectious disease fellowship expanded her view of medicine and health care. “I was in Arkansas for my… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s clinical, research, and administrative excellence and impact on the Memphis community was on display last Thursday night at the Memphis Business Journal’s 2024 Health Care Heroes Awards. Three of the six winners are UT Health Science Center faculty members. Additionally, 17 of the 26 overall finalists (65%) are associated in… Read More
