Steven R. Goodman, PhD, has been named vice chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).

Goodman arrives at UTHSC after serving as vice president for Research, dean of the College of Graduate Studies, and professor in both the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY (State University of New York) Upstate Medical University. Goodman joined the SUNY system in 2008’

Lawrence M. Pfeffer, PhD, Muirhead Professor of Pathology and director of the UTHSC Center for Cancer Research, served as interim vice chancellor for Research since his appointment in April 2013.

Goodman also spent seven years with the University of Texas at Dallas where he served as the C. L. and Amelia A. Lundell Professor of Life Sciences; professor and head of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology; director of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, and director of the Sickle Cell Disease Research Center. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Together with Dr. George Buchanan and colleagues at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Goodman helped bring the first NIH-funded Sickle Cell Center to Texas.