UTHSC News


UT’s Goldowitz Awarded Four Million Dollar NIH Grant

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Daniel Goldowitz, PhD, the Methodist Hospitals Foundation Professor for Neuroscience at UTHSC, has just been awarded a five-year grant totaling nearly $4 million by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.


UTHSC Offers Healthcare Expertise to Evacuees

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The UT Health Science Center is drawing on several areas of its healthcare expertise, as well as certain specialized facilities to support the 15,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees now staying in the Memphis area.


Six UT Faculty Members Recognized as Health Care Heroes

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As finalists in a field of outstanding Memphis area health care contributors, three University of Tennessee Health Science Center professors emerged as winners in the Memphis Business Journal’s annual Health Care Heroes Awards competition. Three others were recognized as finalists. Sheldon Korones, MD, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College of… Read More


UTHSC Professor Tigyi Receives Third NIH Grant

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Gabor Tigyi, MD, PhD, professor of physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), was recently awarded his third National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.


Update: UTHSC Outreach to Evacuees Focuses on Memphis

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) campus-wide effort is focused on supporting the 13,000-plus hurricane evacuees who are now in Memphis.


UTHSC’s Kumar Receives Foundation Grant

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Narendra Kumar, PhD, instructor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Department of Physiology, has received a $141,456 grant from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.


Researcher Investigates New Targets for Cardiovascular Disease

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Daniel L. Baker, assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine, has received a four-year $260,000 American Heart Association National Center grant.


UTHSC to Participate in American Heart Association Heart Walk

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Thirty-seven UTHSC teams are working diligently in an effort to raise funds for the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk. The three-mile walk around downtown Memphis starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, at AutoZone Park.