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UTHSC researchers part of $20M statewide collaboration to develop new cancer treatment

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Efficient cancer treatment with minimal side effects, an education framework, and a workforce pipeline — these are the lofty goals of a leadership group that includes four researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), who recently were awarded $20 million.


ECSU-UT pact gives students path to health sciences Ph.D.

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Elizabeth City State University has entered a partnership with the University of Tennessee to give students in ECSU’s Department of Natural Sciences an avenue to earning a graduate certificate or doctorate in health sciences. Representatives from the UT Health Science Center recently toured ECSU for two days visiting facilities and meeting with students to encourage… Read More


UTHSC Dental College will ‘Give Kids a Smile’

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Students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry are gearing up to give free dental care to more than 100 middle and high school students from Freedom Preparatory Academy on Monday, Feb. 26, as part of Give Kids a Smile Day. For almost a decade, the college has participated in the… Read More


UTHSC to give free dental services to students

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UTHSC to give free dental services to students


Homeless hospital patient discharged wearing only a gown. It’s not an unusual story

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“This anecdote is one I can confirm that we hear from those direct service providers, shelter providers,” said Meiman, the alliance’s planning director. She said they have started working with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine to help teach students social determinants in health care classes.


University of Tennessee Health Science Center professor awarded $1.5m to study ‘root causes’ of disparity in breast cancer survival of Black women and white women

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Shelley White-Means, PhD, a professor of Health Economics in the Department of Interprofessional Education and the director of the Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research (CHEER) at UT Health Science Center, recently received a $1.5 million, four-year grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to explore the root causes… Read More


Erlanger Pulmonary And Critical Care Fellowship Receives ACGME Accreditation

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Erlanger Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, in partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine – Chattanooga, was awarded the accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).


UT Health Science Center researchers partner on multi-institutional $20 million award to develop new radiopharmaceutical cancer therapie

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UT Health Science Center researchers Gabor Tigyi, MD, PhD, Harriet Van Vleet Endowment Professor in Basic Oncology Research, Junming Yue, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pathology, Sue Chin Lee, PhD, in the Department of Physiology, and David Schwartz, MD, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, are part of a scientific leadership group… Read More