Tag: cancer


Evan Glazer, MD, is Changing the Conversation Around Surgical Cancer Care in the Mid-South

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Portrait of Dr. Evan Glazer

Evan Glazer, MD, PhD, a surgical oncologist and associate professor at UT Health Science Center, maintains a busy clinical practice and an active research portfolio in Memphis. Still, when he can, he joins a Sunday morning conference call to help manage the treatment of patients in Nepal. The multidisciplinary call stems from his work with… Read More


UT Health Science Center Researchers on Team that Developed Novel Technique To Help Understand Cancer at the Cellular Level

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Three investigators from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are part of a team of scientists from around the country who developed a novel single-cell technology that could eventually lead to more targeted therapies for cancer. Neil Hayes, MD, professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the College of Medicine and director… Read More


Dr. Liza Makowski Aims to Transform Cancer Care by Understanding Obesity and Cancer Connections

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When Liza Makowski, PhD, moved to Memphis to join the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, she amplified her goal of making a difference in the cancer space. Dr. Makowski leads the Makowski Lab at UT Health Science Center, with a goal to study how obesity and immune cells like white blood cells affect cancer… Read More


UT Health Science Center Researchers Partner on Multi-Institutional $20 Million Award to Develop New Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Therapies

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UT Health Science Center researchers Gabor Tigyi, MD, PhD, Harriet Van Vleet Endowment Professor in Basic Oncology Research, Junming Yue, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pathology, Sue Chin Lee, associate professor in the Department of Physiology, and David Schwartz, MD, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, are part of a scientific leadership… Read More


UTHSC Part of International Colorectal Cancer Study Renewed for Five Years with $10 Million for Innovative Research

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A major international study of colorectal cancer called the ColoCare Study, which includes the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a five-year renewal with $10 million from the National Institutes of Health to fuel new innovations in colorectal cancer treatment. This next phase of the project will focus on developing new medical interventions… Read More


Narayanan Named Deputy Director of UTHSC Center for Cancer Research

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Dr. Rames Narayanan

Ramesh Narayanan, PhD, MBA, has been named the deputy director of the Center for Cancer Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Narayanan is a professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine in the UTHSC College of Medicine, Muirhead Endowed Professor of Pathology, and the director… Read More


UTHSC’s Neil Hayes, MD, Funded to Continue Research  Related to The Cancer Genome Atlas

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Dr. Neil Hayes is a co-principal on a $1.8 million grant to continue working on research related to the TCGA.

Neil Hayes, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Cancer Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is one of two principal investigators for a $1.8 million grant that extends the work of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a groundbreaking multisite project to understand cancer at its molecular level through genome sequencing and… Read More


UTHSC College of Medicine Forms New Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary Cancer Program

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine has formed the UTHSC Cancer Program, a new comprehensive, multidisciplinary initiative consisting of a group of university faculty clinicians, who will provide cancer care across multiple university-affiliated hospital systems and clinical practice groups in the region. The new program includes physicians in all cancer-related specialties… Read More