The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded $2.18 million to two researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center for a project focused on a new drug treatment to protect the brain after a stroke. The principal investigators are Djamel Lebeche, PhD, professor in the Department of Physiology, and Tauheed Ishrat,… Read More
UT Health Science Center researchers across the state were celebrated for their pioneering discoveries and entrepreneurial excellence at the 2024 University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) Innovation Awards. The ceremonies, held November 25 in Knoxville and December 4 in Memphis, honored the brilliant and dedicated faculty whose research-to-commercialization successes are driving real-world impact to treat… Read More
“Your commitment to the mission and vision of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is powerful,” Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer Raaj Kurapati told faculty, staff, and students who gathered Friday in the Mooney Library for the 2024 Impact Awards. Now in their fourth year, the Impact Awards are presented annually by… Read More
When Anissa Christian crosses the stage to accept her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree on Monday, she will be crossing the threshold to a new career built on a desire to serve and confidence in the power of education. Christian, 55, worked as an elementary school teacher for 27 years, first in South Carolina… Read More
Third-year dental student Gustavo Morrice spoke of the joy he felt to be able to provide a full set of dentures for a patient recently. “To me, that was really powerful,” he said. “I love what I do.” A Nashville native who has dreamed of being a dentist since fourth grade, Morrice was addressing the… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Tennessee Population Health Consortium is piloting a program aimed at closing the health care gap for rural Tennessee counties. Under the UT Extension Rural Health Hubs initiative, health coaches are being placed in University of Tennessee Extension Offices in Hardin and Decatur counties to bring essential primary and preventive… Read More
When Seetharaman Jayaraman, PhD, associate professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, learned that his former collaborator and renowned computational biologist, David Baker, PhD, had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he felt a deep sense of pride. As a structural biologist, Dr. Jayaraman played a key role to… Read More
Le Bonheur and University of Tennessee Health Science Center physicians Jonathan D. Finder, MD, and Terri Finkel, MD, PhD, were recently named co-principal investigators of a five-year, $3 million National Institutes of Health research project (R01) grant, “Integrative Genomics of Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease.” The multicenter grant uses genetic data from Le Bonheur and UT… Read More
