Subhash C. Chauhan, PhD, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has received a grant totaling $1.75 million to study the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer, the second deadliest cancer and one that disproportionally affects people of African-American and Native American descent. “Colorectal cancer is a prevalent problem in our society,” said Dr. Chauhan,… Read More
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has presented a 2016 Triumph Award in Literary Legacy to Sajeesh Kumar, PhD, interim executive director and chair of the Institute for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at UT Health Science Center. Dr. Kumar is also an associate professor in the Department of Health Informatics and Information Management… Read More
At his annual Town Hall meeting Monday, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Steven R. Goodman, PhD, presented the newly approved Operational Strategic Plan for Research (OSPR), which outlines a major restructure of the research effort at UTHSC. The plan is designed to increase research dollars coming into… Read More
Adebowale Adebiyi, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a grant totaling $154,000 from the American Heart Association to research the cause and treatment of abrupt decline in kidney function in newborns, also known as acute kidney injury. Funds will… Read More
Grant Funds New Substance Abuse Research Initiative Kristin Hamre, PhD, associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), and Cynthia Kane, PhD, professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been named the 2016 winners of the UTHSC/UAMS USA Collaborative Research Network (CORNET) Award. Their award, worth $50,000 total… Read More
Subhash C. Chauhan, PhD, a professor in the Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pathology in the UTHSC Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received two grants totaling $3.4 million to develop targeted nanomedicine for pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in… Read More
Guy Reed, MD, began more than a decade ago to research a safer, more effective therapy for dissolving blood clots, which are the cause of most strokes. The outcome of that research is a novel thrombus (blood clot) dissolving agent, TS23, which is currently undergoing clinical trials. For his groundbreaking effort, Dr. Reed, the Lemuel Diggs Professor… Read More
Academic year 2015-2016 “was our best year to date,” UT Health Science Center Chancellor Steve J. Schwab, MD, said Tuesday in his annual State of the University Address to the campus. “We have a great story to tell.” The positive tone threaded throughout the speech, as the chancellor detailed growth in enrollment, innovations in education… Read More
