‘Purple Night’ Showcases Pancreatic Cancer Fight
The Kosten Foundation’s Purple Night is set for Saturday, Oct. 15, at 4 p.m. at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Auditorium in the Cancer Research Building at 19 S. Manassas St.
Publisher: The Daily News
Projects Position UTHSC For Transformation in 2017
The campus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is as much a home to a major health care education institution these days as it is ground zero for major development projects poised to come online soon. The onset of the fourth quarter finds the campus on track to bring some of those projects… Read More
UTHSC Adds New Department Chair
Dr. Boyd Gillespie has been named chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
UTHSC Professor Awarded $3.4M in Grants
Dr. Subhash Chauhan, a professor in the Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pathology in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, has received two grants totaling $3.4 million to develop targeted nanomedicine for pancreatic cancer.
Delta Dental of Tennessee Donates Vehicles to UTHSC
Thanks to a recent donation of two Nissan Rogue crossover vehicles from Delta Dental of Tennessee, students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry can now carpool together when traveling back and forth from Memphis to the new clinical site in the Healing Hands Health Center in Bristol, Tenn.
UTHSC Professor Awarded $120K to Study Chronic Pain
Dr. Valeria Vásquez, an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine, has received a $120,000 grant from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation to study the causes of chronic pain.
UTHSC Researchers Win $1 Million Grant
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have received a $1 million grant to study a genetic therapy that one day may offer a way to slow or reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
UTHSC Taps Director For Patient Safety Center
Dr. Chad Epps has been named executive director of the new $36.7 million Interprofessional Simulation and Patient Safety Center being built at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.