UT Faculty Receive Funds to Drive Further Development of Technologies
|The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) has selected four UTHSC researchers or research teams to receive technology development grants for 2011.
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Study Launches Offering Promise for Victims of Traumatic Brain Injury
|UTHSC and the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center have been selected to participate in a national study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. The study will examine treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Giancarlo Mari, MD, Named Chairman for Obstetrics and Gynecology
|Lacey Smith, MD, interim dean of the College of Medicine for UTHSC, has announced the appointment of Giancarlo Mari, MD, as chairman for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Memphis.
Nursing Awarded Scholarships from RWJF for Third Consecutive Year
|The College of Nursing at UTHSC is pleased to announce that, for the third consecutive year, the college has received funds to award academic scholarships.
Professor Lawrence Pfeffer Finds Strategy for Making Anti-Cancer Drugs
|Lawrence Pfeffer, PhD, Muirhead Professor of Pathology and director of the Center for Cancer Research at UTHSC, has identified a pathway that is proving successful in making several anti-cancer drugs work more effectively.
UTHSC to Celebrate Centennial: 100 Years Advancing Health Care
|Founded in 1911 at the heart of what is now the Memphis Medical Center, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is rapidly approaching its centennial anniversary year — 2011.
UTHSC Earns $4.4 Million to Study Weight Loss Plan, Smoking Cessation
|The Department of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC has received a $4.4 million grant to test a weight loss plan using interactive technology that will occur in conjunction with a smoking cessation program.
Top Honors Awarded to Five UTHSC Surgery Residents
|At the recent meeting of the Tennessee Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, five residents from the Department of Surgery at the UTHSC in Memphis competed in surgical research presentations.