The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has selected Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, DSc, chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes and director of the Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, as the recipient of its 2024 Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award. The award, which is one of the… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s fourth-annual Giving Day April 23 was a success, raising $664,850 and exceeding the goal of 1,000 donors in 24 hours with 1,155 donors from across the country. “We had a banner Giving Day and across the board a record number of donors,” Chancellor Peter Buckley, MD, said in… Read More
The Spring 2024 issue of the College of Graduate Health Sciences Magazine illustrates how the college continues to support innovation among its students, postdocs, and faculty, allowing them to develop a career-long dedication to finding cures and answering the big questions. Fostering Ingenuity Learn how an initiative in the College of Graduate Health Sciences helped… Read More
Researcher Jonathan Wall took his PhD exam at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom on December 21, 1994, and started working at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Graduate School of Medicine (GSM) in Knoxville on January 16, 1995. “I never went home for the graduation,” he says. “I actually had no idea… Read More
The College of Medicine held the 2024 Frank M. Norfleet Forum for the Advancement of Health on Friday, April 12. More than 140 individuals attended this year’s forum, which was held at the National Civil Rights Museum. The Department of Pediatrics was selected to host the forum. Toni Whitaker, MD, FAAP, and Jason A. Yaun, MD, FAAP,… Read More
Rick Sain, PharmD, served two years as president of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Pharmacy Alumni Association Board. He plans to continue to give back to his alma mater by donating during the fourth-annual UT Health Science Center Giving Day on Tuesday, April 23. The 24-hour campaign raises funds to support… Read More
The announcement in February that researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are part of a $20 million multi-institutional award from the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII) to develop new radiopharmaceutical cancer therapies signaled UT Health Science Center’s increasing role in high-profile collaborative research across the state. The appointment Thursday of… Read More
The UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is implementing a new option for PhD students to earn their degree. Previously, direct placement in one specific lab was the only option for prospective PhD students entering the graduate program. However, since the fall of 2023, prospective graduate students can choose their… Read More
