RevBio, Inc., announced that it has received FDA approval to expand its ongoing clinical trial to immediately fixate cranial flaps using TETRANITE®, the company’s bone adhesive biomaterial.
Acknowledged as one of the most distinguished neurosurgeons in the medical field, Dr. Foley serves as the Chairman of the Semmes Murphey Neurologic and Spine Institute and, concurrently, a professor of neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, and biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
The TEAYS study’s lead investigator and associate professor of surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Michael Barfield said: “The introduction of Dayspring represents a clinically differentiated and therapeutically distinct advancement in the treatment of lower extremity lymphedema.
The study, led by Dr. Kumar and his team, including recent graduate Dr. Mirzahosseini, from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, suggests that the LM11A-31 compound could be a promising new treatment for neuroHIV and HAND.
Dr. Adam Arthur, Principal Investigator for the WEB-IT Trial, which was the US IDE study to support WEB PMA approval in the US, also commented: “WEB has changed my practice and set a new standard for safety in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms,” said Dr. Adam Arthur, James T Robertson Professor and Chair at The… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has named Bret A. Mettler, MD, its new Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Le Bonheur and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Mettler will also hold The Susan and Alan Graf Endowed Chair in Pediatric Heart Surgery at Le Bonheur.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center recently performed a first-of-its-kind procedure for the Volunteer State at Methodist University Hospital. The surgery involved removing an advanced tumor from the face of a teenage patient and fully reconstructing the jaw in a single day.
The cities of Nashville and Memphis are home to four and three of the ten largest general acute care hospitals in the state of Tennessee, US, respectively.
