UTHSC In the Media


Local Physician Honored

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Dr. Mukta Panda, assistant dean for medical student education and well-being and a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, has been chosen to receive fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians – London. She will be formally recognized at the Royal College of Physicians’ 500th Anniversary Celebration on Sept. 26, where… Read More


AVITA Medical Announces FDA Approval of the RECELL System for the Treatment of Severe Burns in the U.S.

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A global regenerative medicine company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Company’s Premarket Approval (PMA) application to market the RECELL® Autologous Cell Harvesting Device (RECELL® System) to treat severe thermal burns in patients 18 years and older. The RECELL System uses a small amount of a patient’s own skin… Read More


Diversity Business Enterprise Initiative launched at UTHSC

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has launched a Diversity Business Enterprise Initiative to assist and encourage more small businesses and businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans, and those with disabilities to pursue business opportunities with the university. The initiative formalizes efforts underway for some time at UTHSC. It also supports diversity business procedures… Read More


UAB receives $11.7 million grant to test weight loss intervention for cancer survivors .

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Some 652 participants across four states will be recruited to test the effects of exercise and diet interventions in underserved cancer survivors.


Millennials ‘pushing past the pain’ of sickle cell

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Sickle cell “warrior” Juveiane Richards lives with the inherited disease that he knows from experience can deliver episodes of pain known as pain crisis. Often, you can find him in the company of caregiver Ashton Davis at Carpenter’s House at 35 West Brooks Rd. Richards and Davis, a published author and college student, were chilling… Read More


Genotype associated with high-risk body fat patterns in black, white obese children

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The FADS1 genotype was associated with an unfavorable body composition and high-risk body fat distribution patterns in black and white children with severe obesity, according to study results presented at the 2018 AGA James W. Freston Conference. “We conducted this study because we noticed that most of our patients eat modern western diets which contain… Read More


UTHSC Contributed $4 Billion to State’s Economy in 2017

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center contributed approximately $4 billion to the Tennessee economy in Fiscal Year 2017, according to a study released last month that designed to gauge the university’s total economic impact on the state. The 2017 Economic Impact Report was done by Cyril F. Chang, PhD, professor of economics at the… Read More


UTHSC Scientists Win Grant to Study Taste-Behavior Link

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Two scientists from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) – John D. Boughter, Jr., PhD, and Max Fletcher, PhD – have received a five-year $2.27 million grant through the National Institutes of Health for their project entitled “Spatial taste coding in mouse gustatory cortex.” Their work explores how an important sensory system is… Read More