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Congratulations to Austin Davis, PhD candidate in Physiology and Anatomy, for receiving the American Physiological Society’s 2023 Dr. Charles (Tip) Tipton Predoctoral Research Award. Davis will present his research at the 2023 APS Summit in Long Beach, Calif.
Texas Medical Center Innovation recently announced an HSC team’s research on breast cancer therapeutics was selected to be a part of the health care accelerator’s 2023 Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics. The HSC team, led by College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences postdoctoral associate Amit Tripathi, was one of 21 researchers and companies to have been […]
Congratulations Early Stage Investigator Pilot Grant recipients. Yan Zhang, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Genetics Title: The role of the gut microbiome in lyme arthritis Rachel Menegaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiology & Anatomy Title: A combination therapy to recover craniofacial phenotype in a mouse model of osteogenesis imperfecta […]
Jonathan Sweeney, Med Sci alum and TCOM student, won First Place Original Research Poster at the TOMA Midwinter Conference. His research project was conducted in the lab of Dr. Johnathan Tune, chair and professor of Physiology and Anatomy.
Isabelle Gorham, MS student in Dr. Nicole Phillips’ lab, received the Top TARCC Investigator Poster Award at the 2023 Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium Symposium. Her poster was titled “Population-specific mitochondrial stress indicators associated with Alzheimer’s disease in Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic White TARCC participants.”
Welcome to the team! Alexus Martin joins CBTS as Academic Student Navigator for the in-person Med Sci program.
Caroline Rickard’s, PhD, associate professor of Physiology and Anatomy, was selected as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society (FAPS).
Elizabeth Cho, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Anatomical Sciences, was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
Katherine Hernandez, PhD student, received a “Travel for Techniques” award from the American Association of Immunologists. With the award, she will travel to Georgetown University to learn the lysolecithin induced demyelination model from Dr. Jeffrey Huang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. Katherine is a member of the Ortega Lab.
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