The people of Tennessee experience cancer-related mortality that is among the worst in the country. To address the issue, the Center for Cancer Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and UT Medical Center Cancer Institute in Knoxville recently hosted a retreat to plan a statewide collaborative transforming the landscape of cancer research.… Read More
When Seetharaman Jayaraman, PhD, associate professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, learned that his former collaborator and renowned computational biologist, David Baker, PhD, had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he felt a deep sense of pride. As a structural biologist, Dr. Jayaraman played a key role to… Read More
Yan Cui, PhD, associate professor in the UTHSC Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics, recently received a $1.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute for a study titled “Algorithm-based prevention and reduction of cancer health disparity arising from data inequality.” Dr. Cui’s project aims to prevent and reduce health disparities caused by ethnically-biased data in cancer-related… Read More
