In the past three months, several University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers have each received at least $1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health. In 2016 UTHSC in Memphis received $32.96 million from 98 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The announcements come in the midst of the… Read More
University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has seen a flurry of construction since the university’s master plan was unveiled in 2014, including a new Translational Science Building and the Interprofessional Simulation and Patient Safety Center and Plough Center for the Sterile Development buildings, both currently under construction. As part of that master plan, UTHSC’s… Read More
In the past five years, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has completed $350 million of construction. And the effort slows no sign of stopping as the medical college begins to pivot to phase 2 of its campus master plan aimed at going from an incidental to an intentional campus. UTHSC executive vice chancellor… Read More
University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) plans to build new apartments on 10 acres in the Medical District. The planned site, which is already owned by UTHSC, is bordered by Jefferson Avenue, Manassas Street, Madison Avenue and Orleans Street.
The College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is about to start a multimillion-dollar project.
For Dr. Harry Kochat, the new director of the Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Systems at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), coming to Memphis means coming full circle. Kochat has been in pharmaceutical development for more than 30 years, and the first drug he developed was formulated at the original Plough… Read More
A discovered-in-Memphis molecule that activates estrogen receptors could eventually lead to a new treatment for obesity. Dr. Ramesh Narayanan, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, discovered the molecule nine years ago and said it converts “bad” fat tissue to “good” energy-burning fat.
