UTHSC In the Media


UTHSC’s Michio Kurosu Receives $431,000 Grant from NIH

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Michio Kurosu, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center,  has received a grant totaling $431,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.


Dean of UTHSC College of Pharmacy Honored by Pharmaceutical Association

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Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, dean and professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received the Chauncey I. Cooper Award from the National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA).


Hill Points Out Need for More Geriatric Psychiatrists

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After some 22 years in private practice, including 18 with Memphis Psychiatry Group, Hill now is teaching full-time at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), where he did his internship and where he has maintained an affiliation throughout his career. He is one of a small number of geriatric psychiatrists in the Memphis… Read More


Frederick Boop Continues to Unravel Secrets in a Three-Pound Universe

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Boop is on staff at the Semmes Murphey Clinic PC, a professor and chair of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.


Blame Your Genes For Obesity

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“Lower BDNF levels may contribute to obesity in people with the C allele.  If these findings are supported by additional studies, boosting BDNF levels may prove to be beneficial,” said Joan C Han, from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and a former NICHD investigator.


GTXI earnings conference

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… and Dr. Ramesh Narayanan, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Director of the Center of Cancer Drug Discovery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


Univ. of Tennessee Investing $8 Million in School Security Upgrade

Executive Vice Chancellor Kennard Brown said the school’s security has dramatically improved since he began working there.


Mirror Therapy Needs Time to Work in Severe Phantom Pain

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“Mirror therapy actually does work, and it seems to have a very rapid response,” said Jack Tsao, MD, DPhil, professor of neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.