UTHSC In the Media


Enter the ‘pangenome’

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The first technological achievement is what co-author, Erik Garrison, calls “a quiet revolution in nanotechnology” that allows scientists to see single molecules of DNA. “The fact that you can have a single molecule means you can make a single read that is very, very long,” says Garrison, a computational genetics researcher at the University of… Read More


‘Our greatest decade’: UT Board of Trustees Executive Committee meeting addresses legislation, budget for 2023-24

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The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees Executive Committee held their spring meeting on May 5. The meeting addressed a variety of topics, including budgetary issues and state legislation that impacts UT System and higher education in general. Other projects, both directly and indirectly affiliated with UT, will also receive money from state and local governments through a… Read More


860 graduate with degrees in medical fields during UTHSC commencement ceremonies

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The next generation of medical professionals are taking their first steps into the world. The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis held its commencement ceremonies Monday and Tuesday.


Memphis dentist helps prepare children interested in medical careers

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One Memphis doctor is training up the next generation of medical professionals through the program Determined to be a Doctor Someday. Children from around Memphis gathered at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Tuesday. They all want to pursue a career in medicine, and Dr. Christina Rosenthal is helping them get there.


UTHSC graduating 860 students in Spring 2023 commencement

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860 graduates will walk across the stage at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) Spring 2023 commencement. Degrees will be awarded to 860 graduates, including 129 from the College of Health Professions, 166 from the College of Medicine, 178 from the College of Pharmacy, 71 from the College of Nursing, 29 from the… Read More


Gamma tile therapy comes to Memphis

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Ballo and local medical professionals such as Dr. L. Madison Michael II, neurosurgeon at Semmes Murphey and professor of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, worked for years to bring this technology to Memphis. The therapy has been used in other medical facilities with great success and dramatically improves quality of life… Read More


Methodist Transplant Institute is focusing on harder-to-place organs

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Vanatta, who’s the endowed chair for Excellence in Liver Transplantation at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, said reasons a liver could be deemed harder to place include fat in the liver, an injury to the liver from a trauma or blood vessels that are smaller or contain calcium deposits.


A Doctor Published Several Research Papers With Breakneck Speed. ChatGPT Wrote Them All.

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A lightbulb went off in Som Biswas’ head the first time he learned about ChatGPT. A radiologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Biswas came across an article about OpenAI’s chatbot on the web when it was released in November 2022. While the world at large was still coming to terms with the… Read More