The University of Tennessee Health Science Center(UTHSC) will be able to delve deeper into the mysteries surrounding two neurological diseases, thanks to two recent grants totaling more than $1 million. The school received $340,000 from TicTocStop, Inc. to conduct an innovative clinical study on Tourette’s syndrome, along with $680,000 from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for research into Parkinson’s disease.
Campbell-Thompson’s $1.6 million grant will be shared with UF’s Clayton Mathews and Ivan Gerling at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The group will use a microscope fitted with lasers to cut out the tissue containing only the islets. The researchers will then isolate RNA from the islets that still have insulin-producing beta cells and compare it… Read More
Dr. Ari VanderWalde, associate vice chancellor of Research Clinical Trials at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and director of clinical research at the West Cancer Center, summed up the battle against breast cancer in that way. “We are not there yet,” he said. “But I can see it coming in the distance,… Read More
Anna Bukiya, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $393,750 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health, to study how alcohol consumption during pregnancy alters development of the fetal brain.
LeAnn was then accepted into the physical therapy program at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. Following PT school she was able to get a job at the West Tennessee Rehab Center in Jackson.
Faculty members of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have long been the specialist physicians staffing the Regional Medical Center, but on Wednesday they are embracing a new role. With the launch of a new academic physician group called UT Regional One Physicians, the medical school faculty who also practice will play a larger, more… Read More
“Vote No on One Tennessee,” the campaign committee against Amendment 1, launched its ad on cable TV in Nashville. It features Dr. Owen Phillips, an obstetrics and gynecology specialist and medical school professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, talking about a patient who battled cancer during her pregnancy.
“The issue is misdistribution of where doctors are,” said Paul D. Juarez, co-director of the Research Center on Health Disparities, Equity and Exposome, and professor of preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
