UTHSC In the Media


Dr. Dagogo-Jack Quoted on Type 1 Diabetes Linked to Lower Life Expectancy

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“Across the board, individuals who had better glucose control due to intensive therapy had increased survival,” said co-author Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.


Airport health station, staffed by UTHSC, has served city 40 years

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“We’re here for two methods of support: first aid evaluation triage for anyone in the airport, and health promotion and maintenance,” says Peg Thorman Hartig, PhD, FNP-BC, assistant vice chancellor for Community Engagement and Interprofessional Initiatives at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), and director of the airport health station.


Dr. Roger Young and the High Tech Future of the Uterus

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Dr. Roger C. Young, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of biomedical innovation at the University of Tennessee Health-Science Center [said] “This is the beginning of the era of regenerative medicine, which will, at least in some part, replace organ transplants.”


Dr. Dagogo-Jack Named Officer by American Diabetes Association

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Samuel Dagogo-Jack is Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Director, Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, where he holds the A.C. Mullins Endowed Chair in Translational Research.


Another UTHSC researcher scores $1.5M grant

The Memphis Business Journal

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.  


UTHSC Professor Receives $500,000 Grant to Research Prostate Cancer

Memphis Flyer

A new research grant awarded to University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) professor Subhash Chauhan could help lessen the amount of men impacted by prostate cancer in the future. Chauhan, a professor in UTHSC’s department of pharmaceutical sciences, has received a three-year grant worth $562,500 to research new therapies for advanced-stage prostate cancer. The grant, provided by the U.S. Department… Read More


Dr. Gustavo Miranda-Carboni Wins Breast Cancer Study Grant

The Daily News

Gustavo Miranda-Carboni, assistant professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a one-year grant totaling $158,232 from the National Cancer Institute, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health, to study triple negative breast cancer.


Dr. Jeffrey A. Towbin tapped as pediatric cardiology chief

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Dr. Jeffrey A. 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 (UTHSC). ‘We are pleased to welcome Dr. Towbin to the UT Health Science Center community,” said David… Read More