When Roy Jensen, MD, steps to the podium August 31 as the keynote speaker at this year’s Tennessee Statewide Cancer Collaborative scientific meeting in Nashville, he’ll be speaking to a city he knows intimately. He lived there for roughly 24 years, earning his medical degree at Vanderbilt University, completing his residency and fellowship training, and… Read More
During its summer meeting Friday, Aug. 7, the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Advisory Board honored the Memphis Medical Society, heard about research developments and received an update on the university’s improving overall financial position and capital projects. Chancellor Peter Buckley, MD, honored the Memphis Medical Society, founded in 1876 and celebrating 150 years of remarkable service.… Read More
When Kondapa Naidu Bobba, PhD, walked into the Tennessee Statewide Cancer Collaborative Scientific Meeting led by the University of Tennessee Health Sciences in Nashville last year, he didn’t know the conversations he’d have there would help reshape the direction of his research and ultimately help secure a $225,000 award to fight prostate cancer. Dr. Bobba,… Read More
On June 18, CJ Rudolph landed in Memphis at 1 a.m. after nearly 24 hours of travel home from his honeymoon. By mid-day, he was standing before a room of researchers, investors and industry leaders pitching a medical device he had spent three years developing. Hours later, the third-year University of Tennessee Health Sciences biomedical… Read More
“Nutrition is not a side issue in healthcare, it’s fundamental to many of the things that we need to have a healthy lifespan,” UT Health Sciences Vice Chancellor for Research Jessica Snowden, MD, told a national audience Monday during a press conference hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C.… Read More
A new diagnostic tool developed at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences may soon make it significantly easier for physicians to detect cardiac amyloidosis, a progressive and frequently underdiagnosed disease caused by abnormal protein deposits in the heart. The tool is a novel imaging technology, a radioactive molecule that, when injected into a patient and… Read More
Why do people engage in compulsive behaviors? It’s a question Bryan Cruz, PhD, has been turning over since his undergraduate days, and one that became impossible to set aside as he watched people close to him struggle with compulsive and addictive behaviors that didn’t fit neatly into simple explanations. What others might attribute to personality… Read More
Recognizing the unprecedented surge in artificial intelligence infrastructure and investment across the Mid-South, the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, University of Arkansas, the University of Memphis, and University of Mississippi announced Monday the formation of the Mid-South AI Research Consortium. This collaboration seeks to unify the region’s fragmented AI capabilities into a scalable ecosystem, leveraging… Read More
