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Advance Features Research for the Future

The Summer 2014 issue of Advance Research Digest features research opportunities available to medical and undergraduate students to expose them to bench research as well as teach them about opportunities to impact patient care through invention. This issue also introduces Ralph Lydic, PhD, and Helen Baghdoyan, PhD, who are leading new research efforts through the Department of Anesthesiology and in collaboration with UT Knoxville, Oak Ridge National Laboatory, and UT Medical Center Brain and Spine Institute to study the brain and discover differences between consciousness and unconsciousness. Advance features a new laboratory created in Surgery's Division of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery. Also in this issue are research projects to improve patient outcomes from hospitalization as well as in dentistry. Read these stories in more in the Summer 2014 issue of Advanace.

Advance is published twice yearly to spotlight research programs at the UT Graduate School of Medicine and explain how the work of the institution's researchers impacts healthcare in Tennessee and beyond. Join the Advance mailing list to receive Advance in the mail.

Posted October 1, 2014