UTHSC News: UT Health Science Center Leadership Applauds Appointment of New Executive Director for Statewide Research Innovation Institute

The announcement in February that researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are part of a $20 million multi-institutional award from the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII) to develop new radiopharmaceutical cancer therapies signaled UT Health Science Center's increasing role in high-profile collaborative research across the state.

The appointment Thursday of David Sholl, PhD, as the executive director of the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute and vice provost of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, stands to increase such research collaborations statewide and assist UT Health Science Center researchers in participating in that effort.

"David is a gifted scientist, who has had prior experience working at the interface of biophysics and health care research," said UT Health Science Center Chancellor Peter Buckley, MD. "David will be a real asset to our UT Health Science Center community, as we seek to broaden our collaborations with ORNL and across the University of Tennessee System."

Having previously served as a Governor's Eminent Scholar while working at Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Sholl has an affinity for the Tennessee Governor's Chair program, which he will collaboratively oversee. UT Health Science Center's research enterprise benefits from having two outstanding scientists who hold the highly esteemed title of University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair. Robert Davis, MD, MPH, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, is the founding director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair in Biomedical Informatics. Robert W. Williams, PhD, chair of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics, holds the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair in Computational Genomics.

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