The Tennessee Clinical and Translational Science Institute has announced the latest round of grant recipients from its Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies Program. Two UTHSC researchers were each awarded $30,000 for a one-year period. The winners and their projects are: Karen J. Derefinko, associate professor, Department of Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine, for… Read More
UTHSC is collaborating with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to re-establish the Mid-South SOCRA chapter. There will be a virtual kick off meeting on January 25, 2021, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm CST, to discuss the chapter focus, meeting schedule, introduce the Co-Chairs and the Educational Committee members. Margaret Lynn, LMSW, RDN, CCRP, CIP, Director… Read More
The Tennessee Clinical and Translational Science Institute (TN-CTSI) continues to support innovative research for improving the health of Tennesseans, most recently by awarding pilot funding to Wenjing Zhang, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics for her project entitled “De novo periodontal ligament regeneration using Biosynsphere technology”. Dr. Zhang is… Read More
One of UTHSC’s data scientists is applying her extensive expertise in informatics to a national effort to leverage big data in the fight against COVID-19. Charisse Madlock-Brown, PhD, MLS, and faculty member in Health Informatics and Information Management at UTHSC, is a co-lead for one of the clinical domain teams of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative… Read More
