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
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded $3.7 million to Kirk Hevener, PharmD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, for a project to develop new treatments for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection, a serious and often deadly bacterial infection of… Read More
Amali Samarasinghe, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Health Science Center, describes herself as an aficionada of the alternative hypothesis. “I have a passion to uncover the inner workings of non-dogmatic possibilities.” Dr. Samarasinghe is the lead author of a comprehensive review on eosinophils published in the September 2024 edition of The… Read More
Tim Jancelewicz, MD, MA, MS, professor and interim chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, is a co-principal investigator on an $11.4 million, multi-institutional clinical trial grant to study the efficacy of the longstanding practice of using nitric oxide to treat newborns… Read More
Brendan Tunstall, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology in the College of Graduate Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was recently awarded $423,500 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for his exploration of a new approach to treat opioid dependence, a pressing global health issue. Dr. Tunstall, the sole principal investigator… Read More
Ashley Harkrider, PhD, professor and chair of UT Health Science Center’s Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology in Knoxville, has plans to take audiology, speech language pathology, and social work services on the road. A UT Grand Challenge Grant will help her do that. A major initiative of the UT System, the Grand Challenge Grants… 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
