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New Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders launched in collaboration with The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders

The University of North Texas Health Science Center and The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders have formed the Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders. The new Institute's goal is to eliminate cancer through excellence in research, prevention, patient care, education and service to cancer patients and families in both urban and rural Texas.The new…

What should you do when Old Man Winter strikes?

Local meteorologists are predicting a warmer-than-normal winter this year, but, in Texas, you never really know what the weather will do. When the temperatures dip below freezing and there’s snow or ice on the ground, you may wonder whether the Health Science Center will be open. Here are three easy ways to find out, listed…

UNTHSC forms Primary Care Research Institute

Imagine a health system designed so that primary care physicians can take what they learn about local health issues from treating patients in their neighborhood clinics and translate that information into solutions for those problems more quickly and easily. What if the results of research done in this manner were not seen only by the…

UNTHSC, UNT Health clinics closed for Labor Day

The University of North Texas Health Science Center will be closed Monday, Sept. 3, in observance of Labor Day. All offices at the campus will be closed and no classes will meet on that day. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians will be closed for the holiday also. Lewis Library also will be closed…

UNTHSC Receives $2.27 million Emerging Technology Fund Grant

Gov. Rick Perry today announced a $2.27 million Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) grant for the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth to establish a Center for Commercialization of Fluorescence Technology. The Center will be led by the international research team of Zygmut Gryczynski, Ph.D; Ignacy Gryczynski, Ph.D; Evgenia Matveeva, Ph.D.;…

Venegas-Rios Named Top Doctoral Student in Biostatistics at UNT Health Science Center

Heidi Venegas-Rios, MS, was named the outstanding doctoral student of public health in biostatistics at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Veriegas-Rios is a native of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in Arlington. She is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences with bachelor of science and master of…