The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
09/10/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/10/2025 15:36
UTHSC News: ‘You Do Your Best,’ Outstanding Scientist/Mentor Says of 50-Year Career
Sitting back in a chair in his sparsely decorated office in the Translational Science Research Building, Kafait Malik, DSc, PhD, ponders his 50 years at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Of course, he is proud that his research, focusing on neurohormonal factors underlying the development and progression of hypertension and associated cardiovascular and kidney dysfunction, has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since the early 1970s. However, he says his greatest pride comes from the myriad students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scientists, and laboratory technical staff he has taught and mentored over his remarkable five decades at the university.
Read more on the UT Health Science Center News website.
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