CBTS News

Growing the life sciences industry is critical for innovation and economic development in Texas. Join industry experts for a discussion about how to fuel that growth with a dynamic workforce. Register: https://www.unthsc.edu/events/shaping-tomorrows-innovators/ Event Details: Aug. 10, 2023 5 – 8 p.m. MET 109-111

Payal Ranade, PhD student in the Vishwanatha Lab, received the 2023 Young Investigator Award in the Graduate Student Category from the American Association for Indian Scientists in Cancer Research.

See you in DC! Members of the Ortega Lab will be attending and presenting at the American Association of Immunologists annual meeting. Congrats on receiving awards from AAI! Katherine Hernandez, PhD student: Minority Scientist Award Kaitlyn Bambino, Research Assistant II: Trainee Abstract Award Nathan Jones, PhD student: Minority Scientist Award

Kejin Hu, PhD, joins the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics as associate professor. Read more about Dr. Hu’s research and expertise.

HSC is well represented at the American Physiology Summit in Long Beach. Congrats to these physiology trainees who received APS awards this year! Austin Davis (PI: Dr. Caroline Rickards): 2023 Dr. Charles (Tip) Tipton Predoctoral Research Award, Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section Bella Ruiz (PI: Dr. Steven Romero): Martin Frank Diversity Travel Award Jonna Smith […]

We are tremendously proud of all of our students and their accomplishments. On April 20, we came together to celebrate their success at the annual CBTS Awards Banquet. Congratulations to all award recipients! Dean’s Awards Alexa Kelly, Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement in Academics Jessica Proulx, Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement in Research Program Awards […]

Oral Presentation Award First Place, Jonna Smith, A new rodent model of preeclampsia: Pregnant daughters from hypertensive placental ischemic moms have hypertension Second Place, K. Austin Davis, Induced Blood Flow Oscillations at 0.1 Hz Protects Oxygenation of Severely Ischemic Tissue Postdoctoral Poster Presentation First Place, Julio Rincon, Microfluidic Chip for the evaluation of therapeutics and carrier drugs in […]

Austin Davis and Selina Tucker, both Ph.D. candidates in The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, were awarded two-year predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association.    AHA grants predoctoral fellowships to enhance the research and clinical training of promising students pursuing careers aimed at improving global […]

Congrats Libby Bradley, PhD candidate in Physiology and Anatomy! Libby was awarded an Education Research Scholarship from the American Association of Anatomy.

Since 2003, Wheels for Wellness, Inc. and a previous foundation with similar goals have donated more than $266,000 to help fund cancer research initiatives at HSC, including the research of Drs. Bruce Bunnell, chair and professor of Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics, at HSC’s College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, and Andras Lacko, emeritus professor.  The […]