CBTS News

Max Petty, a PhD candidate in Drs. Stankowska and Krishnamoorthy’s Labs, and Gretchen Johnson, PhD candidate in Dr. Stankowska’s Lab received travel awards from SACNAS to attend The National Diversity in STEM Conference in Portland Oregon, Oct. 26-28. The conference focused on enhancing diversity in STEM fields. Jennifer Pham, a PhD candidate in Dr. Dorota Stankowska’s Lab, […]

Yu Tao, PhD student in the lab of Dr. Rong Ma, delivered an outstanding oral presentation and received a travel grant at the University of Mississippi’s Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center Graduate Student Research Symposium. Read Tao’s abstract: Exaggerated Store-Operated Calcium Entry: Mechanism Contributes to High Glucose-induced Podocyte Injury and Mitochondria Damage  

Our alumni are doing great things! On Oct. 18, Naomi Swanta, PhD, shared valuable insights and career advice from her experiences as a field applications scientist with Quanterix. The presentation was part of SACNAS at HSC’s Career Seminar Series that features CBTS alumni with a range of industry experience applying their PhD’s outside of academia.

The Center for Human Identification at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth announced today that it is the first public crime lab in the U.S. to offer Forensic Genetic Genealogy, or FGG, capabilities, making it possible to solve decades-old crimes once thought to be unsolvable. Using a combination of advanced DNA […]

Mohammad Housini, a Med Sci alum and PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Robert Barber, has been chosen for a prestigious year-long fellowship with Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative as part of the Health Equity Scholars Program. During the fellowship, Housini, who is also pursuing his DO degree at TCOM, will research “Genetic and Epigenetic […]

People with leg amputations, including those with diabetes, run the risk of overuse injuries like osteoarthritis, muscle atrophy or bone breaks in their intact limbs.   Now, new research is quantifying the impacts of amputations and diabetes, a leading cause of amputation, on those overuse injuries. The findings could influence further research on musculoskeletal health and […]

Kylie Jones, a master’s student in CBTS, presented a poster at the national American Hypertension Association conference that showcased her research on mitochondria in the brain related to hypertension. She competed against master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral students during this session and was selected as one of 20 awardees in a 135-poster showcase for a Trainee […]

From KUT Radio: Texas has the most ‘brain-eating’ amoeba infections in the U.S. Here’s what to know. As its nickname suggests, the “brain-eating” amoeba infects people by traveling up the nose, through a layer of bone, and up to the olfactory bulb, which is responsible for sending smell signals to your brain. From there, Naegleria fowleri “literally […]

Dimitrios Karamichos, PhD, has been appointed interim dean of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, effective Sept. 15, 2023.  Karamichos has served as executive director and endowed chair of the North Texas Eye Research Institute at HSC since 2022. He is a tenured professor with faculty appointments […]

According to the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 29.5 million people aged 12 or older experienced alcohol use disorder in the previous year. In 2019, 20.4 million people in the United States were diagnosed with substance use disorders, an NSDUH survey found. More than 106,000 persons in the U.S. died from substance-involved […]