The Office of Research is celebrating yet another CORNET hit, with a recent $1.15 million NIH award to Wei Li, PhD, UTHSC Distinguished Professor and director of the College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Center, and Jianxiong Jiang, PhD, associate professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Neurobiology at UTHSC. The two are principal investigators on a project titled “Targeting… Read More
The Office of Research’s CORNET symposia are returning this fall. Based on the ideals of cross-disciplinary team science, the CORNET Awards were created to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, team research. CORNET Awards Symposia are held to honor award teams and provide award recipients an opportunity to present their findings and share their discoveries. A variety of collaborations,… Read More
The month of March ended with a slew of NIH awards coming in from UTHSC’s Office of Sponsored Programs. As we wind our way through congratulating each PI and reporting on each project, we want to pause and immediately highlight two awards in particular: $4,407,885 million to Dr. Jim Bailey, MD, MPH, Robert S. Pearce Endowed… Read More
In 2019, UTHSC achieved record-breaking growth in research funding. Year-end numbers from the Office of Research show grants and contract awards for FY19 totaling over $100 million for the first time in UTHSC history. This number represents a tremendous leap over a 3-year period, with funding jumping nearly 20%, from approximately $84 million in all… Read More
As described in another article in this quarter’s edition of The Research Rainmaker, the American South is home to the largest minority population in the United States. With high levels of chronic disease and poor health outcomes, researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Tulane University, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center… Read More
Third-year College of Graduate Health Science student Jessica Baker, BS, was recently selected as a recipient of a National Institutes of Health award for her project titled, “Evaluation of the Genetic Contribution of the Neuroinflammatory Response Following Neonatal Alcohol Exposure.” The fellowship award will support Baker’s work as a neuroscience student where she focuses on the… Read More
In early Fall 2017, the Office of Research Development announced a new Collaborative Research Network (CORNET) Award opportunity for UTHSC Researchers. The new UTHSC/Southern Research (SR) CORNET Award in Drug Discovery and Development was designed to launch drug discovery programs that are based on new and unique biology of disease that will fill significant unmet medical… Read More
Six research teams were recently announced as the 2017 awardees for the UTHSC Collaborative Research Network (CORNET) Awards. Based on the ideals of cross-disciplinary team science, the CORNET Awards provides seed money to stimulate innovative, interdisciplinary, team-based research, which will give rise to future extramural funding. To date, the CORNET Awards have provided almost $1… Read More
As you have learned from this issue of the Research Rainmaker, a delegation of UTHSC research education leaders visited Sichuan University in Chengdu, China in mid-February 2017. The group included Drs. Steph Cormier, Gabor Tigyi, Jeff Towbin, Ryan Yates, Don Thomason, Weikuan Gu and me. We were visiting an old friend of mine, Dr. James Kang, who I… Read More
Tropical rainforests exist close to the equator and receive 60 to 160 inches of rain per year. The temperature ranges from 700 to 850 degrees F, creating a warm and humid climate. This in turn leads a diverse microbiome with 40 to 75% of biotic species found in rainforests. This unique environment houses half of the world’s… Read More
