UTHSC announces an increase in research grant and contract awards for FY21
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center s Office of Research announced that annual research grant and contract awards for FY21, which ended June 30, total more than $121 million, a 20.6% increase from last year.
The FY21 research award total is $121,700,667. Roughly half of these funds come from federal sources. The faculty of all six colleges and four campuses broke records in a number of categories, including grant proposal count by fiscal year and quarter. Additionally, the UTHSC College of Pharmacy moved up to Number 14 nationally among colleges and schools of pharmacy in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health.
UTHSC secures $121 million in research grants and contract awards
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has a big year, rakes in $121 7 million in research awards in fiscal year 2021
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Memphis, Tenn. (March 10, 2021) - The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recently awarded Jonathan H. Jaggar, PhD, Maury Bronstein Endowed Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), a $2.3 million grant for his study titled PKD proteins in endothelial cells. The proposal s goal is to provide a new understanding of how endothelial cells regulate blood pressure.
Blood vessels provide all of our organs with oxygen and nutrients and determine blood pressure in the body. Endothelial cells, which line the inside of all blood vessels, can cause blood vessels to relax or contract, thus controlling the body s blood pressure. Endothelial cells stop working properly during vascular diseases such as stroke and high blood pressure (hypertension), but how this happens is not fully understood. Dr. Jaggar s project is focused on identifying the functions of two proteins in endothelial cells called PKD1 and PKD2. H