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Brian Peters part of multi-disciplinary team awarded $3.9 million to study mixed fungal-bacterial infections

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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


Health Care Heroes 2024 finalist awarded 182 U.S. patents across 49-year career

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Health Care Innovations Dr. Kevin Foley Chairman, Semmes Murphey Clinic; professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery & Biomedical Engineering, UTHSC; chairman/medical director, MERI


Health Care Heroes 2024 finalist develops eye drops that could revolutionize disease treatment

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Health Care Innovations Monica Jablonski Hamilton Endowed professor/vice chair/director of research, Department of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, and associate dean, Postdoctoral Affairs, UTHSC; founder/chief science officer, Tavo Biotherapeutics Inc.


Health Care Heroes 2024 finalist is a prostate cancer drug hunter at UTHSC

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Health Care Innovations Ramesh Narayanan Professor of Medicine, UTHSC


Health Care Heroes 2024 finalist’s innovation has saved thousands of babies’ lives

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Health Care Innovations Dr. Shyam Sathanandam Director, Interventional Cardiac Imaging & Interventional Catheterization Laboratory, and director, Clinical Research-Heart Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital; professor, Peds Cardiology, UTHSC


Health Care Heroes 2024 finalist helps the unhoused through Campbell Clinic Foundation

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Community Outreach Dr. David Richardson Orthopedic surgeon, Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics; professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UTHSC


Health Care Heroes 2024 finalist trains next generation of forensic nurses at UTHSC

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Community Outreach Andrea Sebastian Assistant professor, UTHSC; pediatric nurse practitioner, Child Advocacy Resource and Evaluation Services Team, UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists


Recently Published Study Examines a Novel Drug Candidate for the Treatment of neuroHIV

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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.