Major Donor Gift for West Cancer Center
West Cancer Center has announced a multimillion-dollar gift from Jack and Betty Moore to The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research, the cancer center’s fundraising arm.
UTHSC In the Media
Mystery still surrounds death of Inmate No. 81738
The autopsy, conducted by a doctor at the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center in Memphis, listed Thornton’s cause of death as “multiple blunt traumatic and thermal injuries.”
Memphis Innovation Awards 2015 Announces Honorees
University of Tennessee Health Science Center professor Dr. Lisa Jennings was honored for the foundation of CirQuest Labs and Ariste Medical. Her multi-service lab connects pharmaceutical and device industries, while reducing costs and complexity.
Surprising discovery on racial disparities in health care
“It is widely accepted that African Americans have higher mortality and worse cardiovascular outcomes in the general population. A large part of this is attributable to socioeconomic deprivation, which includes, among others, lack of obtaining needed health care,” study author Dr. Csaba Kovesdy, director of the Clinical Outcomes and Clinical Trials Program in Nephrology at… Read More
Memphis Researcher’s Strep Vaccine Moves to Trial Phase
Vaxent chief scientific officer James B. Dale, who also serves as a professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, invented StreptAnova based on more than 25 years of laboratory research.
The 2015 Innovation Awards winners
Dr. Lisa Jennings, a clinical professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is the founder of CirQuest Labs and co-founder of Ariste Medical. CirQuest Labs is a multi-service specialty laboratory and direct marketer of clinical trial logistics to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. She explains her endeavor… Read More
UTHSC Announces Six Grant Awards Totaling $402,000
The UT Institute for Research, Innovation, Synergy and Health Equity at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has announced the latest round of grant recipients from its Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTCS) Program. Six UTHSC researchers were chosen from a field of 28 submissions.
Lebron Cooper Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology at UTHSC
Lebron Cooper, MD, has been named chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at UTHSC. An alumnus of the UTHSC College of Medicine, he will begin his new role on Sept. 28.