With credit to the timeless film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, and full knowledge that I am dating myself, I am “Singing in the Rain”. We have done so much together in such a short time to stimulate research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, that you can’t help enjoy the… Read More
At the Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awards ceremony in April, the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) Study was awarded the Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Award and the Herbert Pardes Award for Clinical Research Excellence. Winning papers were chosen based on their degree of innovation, representing the best and brightest work in the… Read More
Subimal Datta, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Professor of Psychology at the UT College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2015 B.K. Anand Oration Award at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Asari Nagar, New Delhi. The international award is given annually to an eminent basic medical scientists with special contributions related to neurosciences. The… Read More
Claire Simpson, Ph.D., B.S., Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics (GGI) within the College of Medicine, joined the faculty in January 2016. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Neurogenetics from the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College in London and has a background in biomedical sciences and chemistry. Dr. Simpson is a… Read More
Established in 2014, the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics (GGI) is a new basic science department within the College of Medicine. The department is comprised of Robert W. Williams, Ph.D., an experimental neurogeneticist and its founding chair; Professors Lu Lu, M.D., and Byron Jones, Ph.D., both of whom are experts in addiction and toxicogenetics; and three new faculty; Megan Mulligan, Ph.D., a molecular neurogeneticist; Athena… Read More
The mission of the College of Graduate Health Sciences (CGHS) is to “improve the knowledge about human health through education, research, and public service, with an emphasis on improving the health of Tennesseans.” One way the College seeks to fulfill this mission is by hosting Quarterly Scientific Meetings (QSM). CGHS began the meetings in 2012 as… Read More
As modern research methods have become more specialized and the true complexity of today’s most pressing health issues and diseases is revealed, coordinating teams of investigators with diverse skills and knowledge has shown to be especially helpful in tackling these obstacles. A growing trend pithing biomedical research is cross-disciplinary science in which researchers with training… Read More
A Knoxville-based startup company, Peroxygen Systems, Inc., claimed the grand prize at the 2016 Tennessee Venture Challenge (TVC) competition for budding entrepreneurs in early April. Ming Qi of Peroxygen Systems, Inc. received $20,000 from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF), winning over five other startups whose principals pitched their business ideas to a panel of investors. The Tennessee Venture Challenge, hosted by the… Read More
