Owen Locke Foundation awards UT Health $1 million for AMD research
The Owen Locke Foundation has announced a $1 million grant to University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis to advance research on age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
UTHSC In the Media
Samuel Dagogo-Jack Recognized for Outstanding Diabetes Treatment Research
Samuel Dagogo-Jack, chief of the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, has received the 2024 Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award from the American Diabetes Association.
New Era? ‘Double Selective’ Antibiotic Spares the Microbiome
A new antibiotic uses a never-before-seen mechanism to deliver a direct hit on tough-to-treat infections while leaving beneficial microbes alone.
Nationally known pediatric infectious disease researcher named vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
After an extensive national search, Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, FAAP, MHPTT, a nationally recognized pediatric infectious disease specialist and researcher, has been named the new vice chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, effective September 1.
Doctors develop minimally invasive procedure to avoid drilling a ‘burr hole’ in the skull to treat clot on the brain
Writing in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, Fiorella and co-author Dr. Adam S. Arthur of the University of Tennessee, emphasized that MMAE “could fundamentally change the treatment paradigm for chronic subdural hematoma, establishing MMAE as a superior alternative therapy.”
The balancing act of a children’s hospital president, CEO and surgeon-in-chief
Dr. Eubanks, who is also a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, has been with Le Bonheur Children’s since 2002. He became the hospital’s surgeon-in-chief in 2015 and has maintained that role through becoming the hospital’s interim president last March and permanent president in December.
NASA taps Regional One doc to improve space travel safety for astronauts
Dr. Tony Alleman, a hyperbaric medicine expert from Regional One Health, has been tapped by NASA to join a team of doctors working to make space travel safer for astronauts.
Jon McCullers steps down from UTHSC administrative roles
Dr. Jon McCullers has resigned from his roles as chief operating officer of clinical affairs and senior executive associate dean at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine.