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
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
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
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
Terrance (Terry) Cooper, PhD, developed his interest in biology while taking photomicrographs with direction from his biology professor as an undergraduate student at Wayne State University in the mid-1960s. Now, Dr. Cooper, a researcher and Harriet Van Vleet professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry in the College of Medicine, is a nationally… Read More
Guoyun Chen, PhD, MD, an associate professor of Pediatrics Research at the UT Health Science Center and basic scientist at the Children’s Foundation Research Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, has been awarded $2.26 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to continue researching new ways to treat sepsis, a potentially deadly… Read More
