Memphis-based GTx Inc. has entered into a license agreement with the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. The agreement will result in GTx developing new therapies that can aid in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer, which were created at the University of Tennessee.
Current employer: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
A study covering the regulation of rapid eye movement sleep at UTHSC has received a four-year grant worth $1.4 million from the National Institute of Mental Health, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health.
Finalists included UTHSC Translational Science Research Building, 71 S. Manassas St. Owner/Developer: University of Tennessee Health Science Center Project cost: $40 million General contractor: Webb Building Corp. Architect: Hnedak-Horrell, a joint venture of Hnedak Bobo Group and The Horrell Group Architects
UT Health Science Center’s Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, will give the keynote address at the 2015 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium 25th Annual Health Sciences Program at the University of Michigan. Her topic is “Unity not Uniformity: A Spotlight on Health Disparities.
Programs at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga (6th) and University of Tennessee-Martin (33rd) also fared very well in the ranking.
For the second time this week, a professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded a million dollar grant. Christopher Waters, a professor and vice chair in the Department of Physiology, has received a grant totaling $1.5 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health.
Jeffrey Towbin has been named co-director of the Heart Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, chief of Cardiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
