More recently, Mikayla Harden-Pruitt, a graduate student at UTHSC, has benefited from the collaboration.
She works in the lab of Victor Torres, PhD, Department of Host-Microbe Interactions chair.
“Being a UT Health Science Center student and working in a St. Jude lab has helped me in several ways,” she said. “St. Jude is very collaboration-oriented, and the Host-Microbe Interactions department studies many different pathogens, so I can easily gain experience cross-training in various research fields and with different pathogens.”
As Tennessee’s only public, statewide academic health science institution, UTHSC is the state’s largest educator of health care professionals. Since its founding in 1911, UTHSC has educated and trained approximately 54,000 health care professionals through its six colleges and four campuses.
Faculty physicians, residents, as well as supervised students, are researchers and care providers for patients in hospitals and clinics across Memphis and the region. UTHSC physicians and researchers are also among the staff at several health care institutions across Tennessee.
Through partnerships with major hospitals in Tennessee’s largest cities, as well as 779 clinical and education sites, UTHSC students, trainees, residents, and faculty provide high-quality health care to the people of Tennessee.
