UTHSC has been awarded a $1.3 million grant to study health disparities in Memphis and Shelby County by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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.
On October 29 at 2:30 p.m., the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Health Foundation will donate $500,000 to the UTHSC College of Dentistry. The grant will be used to enhance the college’s dental clinic.
The Crisis Center, a 24-hour telephone hotline for those in distress, has relocated to UTHSC. Located in the heart of the Memphis Medical Center, UTHSC is providing the space to the non-profit organization at no charge.
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.
The College of Medicine honors four alumni as having made distinguished contributions: Drs. Henry Cheairs Farrar, James Netterville, T. David Sisk (posthumously) and O. Douglas Wilson.
