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UT Research Foundation Honors Innovators Advancing Discovery, Commercialization, and Economic Growth

Written by Lee Ferguson

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Research
2025 Innovation Awards

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) recently recognized some of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s innovators, whose research is generating new intellectual property, licenses, and startup companies, reflecting the depth of discovery at the university and the growing momentum behind its innovation portfolio. The 2025 Innovation Awards luncheon for UT Health Sciences… Read More

From Patient Care to Advocacy, Dr. Emilee Dobish Is a Champion for Children

Written by Chris Green

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Clinical CareEducationPublic Service
Portrait of Dr. Emilee Dobish

Ever since Emilee Dobish, MD, was old enough to answer the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” she has known the answer. Born with a diaphragmatic hernia, she spent her first days of life in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. “I was on… Read More

Why Inflammation Matters This Holiday Season

Written by Allyson Lawson

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Clinical Care
Dr. Jimmy Kerrigan's headshot

As millions of Americans prepare for the holidays, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center says the conversation about heart health needs to shift from cholesterol to include a less visible but more dangerous threat: inflammation. Jimmy Kerrigan, MD, FSCAI, FACC, is an assistant professor of medicine at the College… Read More

Tennessee Health Leaders Visit UT Health Sciences for ‘Conversation Among Partners’

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical CarePublic ServiceResearch

“It is good to be here and partner with you,” Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dunn, DVM, PhD, said during a visit to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Memphis campus Thursday, Dec. 11. Commissioner Dunn and members of his leadership team came to Memphis to officially present three rural health grants to… Read More

College of Medicine’s Knoxville Campus Embraces New Name in Line with Academic Expansion

Written by Chris Green

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Clinical CareEducationResearch
Photo of a physician and two medical students in an exam room.

For the last several years, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s medical campus in Knoxville operated with a name it had outgrown, according to the campus’s dean. On October 1, that changed. Now officially the College of Medicine – Knoxville, the campus has stepped into a new identity that reflects its expanding role in… Read More

A Lifelong Passion for Research and Discovery

Written by Nathan Ball

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EducationResearch
Dr. Duane Miller Portrait

“New discoveries in science are more important to me than money.” That’s how researcher Duane Miller, PhD, describes the passion that has driven his career. “You can’t understand the excitement you have when you find out that one of your drugs works the way you think it should, or you get a surprise, the fact… Read More

Years in the Making: Legacy Society Donor Wall Unveiled

Written by Aimee C. McMillin

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Clinical CareEducation
Dr.Jeannie Beauchanp

“Legacy gifts aren’t about the past; they’re about the future,” said Cindy Russell, PhD, vice chancellor for Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs at the University Tennessee Health Science Center. “They are about believing in what UT Health Science Center will become and who it will help.” Dr. Russell spoke to more than 100 guests who… Read More

Impact Awards Commend UT Health Science Excellence Across State

Written by Allyson Lawson

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Clinical CareEducationPublic ServiceResearch
The winner holding his award and posing against the UTHSC Impact Awards backdrop

“The energy yesterday and the energy today makes me feel like if I come in tomorrow and then Sunday, those days will also have some great energy happening around here,” Chancellor Peter Buckley, MD, said Dec. 12 of recent celebratory events, opening the 2025 Impact Awards at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Attendees… Read More