Alejandro M. Dopico, PhD, MD, professor in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been awarded $1,779,532 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will support Dr. Dopico’s ongoing study of how… Read More

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has received a $1.7 million grant from the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation to expand the Blues Project (BLUES) in Shelby and Hamilton Counties in Tennessee.

Spring has sprung and it’s time for Memphis to get moving! Residents are encouraged to walk for 30 minutes on April 7 as part of National Start! Walking Day. Memphis-area employees will celebrate National Start!

On Tuesday, March 30, the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will host a daylong NanoDays celebration.

A committee to direct the search for the next chancellor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been established and is set to begin work at its first meeting Dec. 18.

Representative G.K. Butterfield, Jr., a democratic congressman from North Carolina, has introduced the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) Act of 2009 on Capitol Hill.

Burt Sharp, MD, Van Vleet Chair of Excellence, and colleagues have been awarded $2,546,000 to identify how genes expressed in the brain make adolescents vulnerable to the addictive effects of nicotine.

Gabor J. Tigyi, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UTHSC, has been awarded $2,321,862 to study preclinical development of a new drug that protects from radiation injury.