Poplar Healthcare, which has led in laboratory innovation in Memphis during the pandemic, has been sold to a Boston-based software firm that uses artificial intelligence in clinical trials and other biopharma research. With Poplar Healthcare, it will now expand the use of AI in thousands of lab specimens processed in the Memphis lab for routine… Read More
The lab operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, processing about 800 tests a day.The lab’s turnaround time has been key to fighting the virus with many results returned in less than 12 hours. “I think we’ve played an absolute essential role in the city, particularly filling gaps within the community of people… Read More
All day, couriers from the Veteran’s Hospital, Regional One, Methodist and the medical examiner’s office bring small coolers of specimens to what last winter was a glorified broom closet on the fifth floor at 930 Madison Ave.
Neil Hayes, MD, MS, MPH, division chief of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is among recipients of the 2020 Team Science Awards from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) for his contributions to developing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a groundbreaking multisite project to understand cancer at its… Read More
Dr. Neil Hayes, head of the division of hematology and oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is among the recipients of the 2020 Team Science Awards from the American Association for Cancer Research for his work in developing The Cancer Genome Atlas.
Not every university lab has a robot capable of turning out 1,500 molecular samples a day next to a pathologist who’s also an expert in lab regulation. On March 13, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center did.
One of cancer’s most formidable adversaries is Dr. Neil Hayes. A physician and scientist with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Hayes has played a vital role in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The cancer genomics program is a collaboration, started in 2006, between the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome… Read More
In a community filled to the brim with medical professionals, each year the Memphis Business Journal honors the standouts. MBJ held its 21st annual Health Care Heroes awards Tuesday, Aug. 20, at the Holiday Inn University of Memphis. Finalists were recognized in the categories of Administrative Excellence, Community Outreach, Health Care Innovations, Health Care Provider-Physician, and Health… Read More
