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UTHSC-led team lands cancer immunotherapy grant

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Cancer immunotherapy is a form of cancer treatment that uses the body’s immune system to prevent, control, and eliminate cancer, and it’s become a popular method. But it often fails to cure patients, as the cancer cells can sidestep and inhibit the body’s anti-tumor response. Now, however, a team at the University of Tennessee Health… Read More


UTHSC-led team receives $3.16 million from National Cancer Institute for cancer immunotherapy drug development

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A UTHSC-led team has received $3.16 million from the National Cancer Institute to develop a drug that boosts the immune system response in cancer patients to destroy tumor cells. Gabor Tigyi, MD, PhD, Harriet Van Vleet Endowment Professor in the Department of Physiology, is the lead investigator. Sue Chin Lee, PhD, associate professor in the… Read More


Non-profit holds ‘Walk-a-thon’ to help women dress for success

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UTHSC Women’s Resource Group partnered with Dress for Success Memphis, seeking to empower women by raising money for professional clothes and development tools.


Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center at UTHSC to Host Annual Art Show and Auction

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The Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center (RKSTC) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is hosting its 6th-annual art show and auction online Friday, August 26 – Sunday, August 28. This event benefits the pediatric pro-bono occupational therapy clinic at UTHSC, which serves the uninsured and underinsured in the Mid-South. The online auction will… Read More


Provectus Biopharmaceuticals Expands Sponsored Research Collaboration with University of Tennessee Health Science Center to Investigate Pharmaceutical-Grade Rose Bengal as Anti-Fungal and Anti-Oral Bacterial Agent

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Provectus (OTCQB: PVCT) today announced that the Company has expanded its sponsored research program with Michio Kurosu, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, Tennessee to investigate Provectus’ pharmaceutical-grade rose bengal for the treatment of anti-fungal and anti-oral bacterial infections.… Read More


Delegates from Chinese Embassy to U.S. Visit with Chinese Scholars at UTHSC

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Jin Wang, a student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center since 2017, is proud to have graduated from the College of Graduate Health Sciences on Monday. She plans to stay on for postdoctoral work in immunology. Wang and three other students from the college had the opportunity Tuesday to visit with representatives from… Read More


University of Tennessee Health Science Center to receive aging research grant

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Congressman Steve Cohen granted the University of Tennessee Health Science Center $315,415 for aging research. The grant will be used to research functional genetic analysis of epigenetic age acceleration as well as the regulatory landscape of the methylome. Congressman Cohen made the statement: “I am always pleased to see the National Institutes of Health invest… Read More


Health Care Heroes 2022: Dr. Robert D. Wallace of UTHSC

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In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More