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
Cornisha McDonald sat front and center on the lawn of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Historic Quadrangle Saturday afternoon, as members of the campus community came together for the first-ever Vols Football Game Watch Party. The aquatics coordinator for Campus Recreation, McDonald brought her niece, who played with several other children on the… 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
Dustin Fulton, EdD, assistant dean for Admissions in the College of Medicine, is a continuous supporter and an advocate for giving to the university. “Think about the legacy you want to leave. Any stop that you have on your journey, whether personal or professional, what is the legacy you want to leave behind,” Dr. Fulton… Read More
“It’s exciting to have so many of our amazing educators come together and be recognized for the time and effort they devote to giving their students and future health care providers at UT Health Science Center a top-notch education,” Tom Laughner, PhD, director of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), said at the recent Annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence.… Read More
Brian Peters, PhD, First Tennessee Endowed Chair of Excellence in Clinical Pharmacy and professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science at the UT Health Science Center, was recently awarded $3.9 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project aimed at unravelling intricate mysteries surrounding complex fungal-bacterial infections.… Read More
Faculty, fellows, postdoctoral fellows, and residents in the College of Medicine came together recently for the 45th-Annual Medical Student Research Fellowship (MSRF) program presentations. The event took place from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the General Education Building. The MSRF program enables UT Health Science Center medical students, selected on a competitive basis, to… Read More
