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May 30, 2014 • School of Public Health
Several years ago, when a Washington University scientist was facing certain death from leukemia, his colleagues set out to find the gene that was driving his cancer. By sequencing the genes of his cancer and those of healthy cells, they were able to zero in on the gene and find a new drug that specifically…
May 28, 2014 • School of Public Health
UNT Health Science Center is reaching out worldwide in its student recruiting efforts. Matt Nolan Adrignola, EdD, MBA, Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, recently travelled to India to encourage students to consider a move to Fort Worth to further their public health education. The trip made sense from a demographic point of…
May 27, 2014 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Gerald "Jerry" Korty, MS Christopher D. Vera Gov. Rick Perry has appointed two students in the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine to the governing boards of statewide institutions. Gerald "Jerry" Korty, MS, a TCOM second-year student, will serve as the student member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, a nine-member body tasked with improving…
May 23, 2014 • School of Public Health
Susie Ramisetty-Mikler, PhD, MPH, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching-Research Scholarship (2014-15) to spend 10 months at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ramisetty-Mikler, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UNTHSC's School of Public Health, will teach a graduate health research/data analysis course in the Department of Family & Community Medicine and will conduct research…
May 22, 2014 • School of Public Health
Elaine Mardis, PhD, the renowned scientist who helped create methods for decoding the human genome, will be the keynote speaker for the Ninth Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities May 29 and 30 at UNT Health Science Center. Dr. Mardis, Professor of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis, will speak at…
May 20, 2014 • School of Biomedical Sciences
The day is not far off when healthy individuals can get their genetic blueprint analyzed as part of a check-up, world-renowned biochemist J. Craig Venter, PhD, told the audience at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences commencement ceremony. "You and your children will have your genomes sequenced as a regular part of your medical care,"…
May 16, 2014 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Linh Vo, a first-year TCOM student, won the first annual Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Essay Award at the UNT Health Science Center. Vo received the $1,000 award for her essay that examined physicians' duty to give patients full and complete information about their treatment options rather than the physician independently selecting his or her…
May 15, 2014 • School of Biomedical Sciences
J. Craig VenterPhoto courtesy Public Library of ScienceBiochemist-geneticist J. Craig Venter, PhD, best known for mapping and sequencing human DNA, will deliver on Friday the commencement address for UNT Health Science Center's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences graduation ceremony. The ceremony is from 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. Dr. Venter…
May 14, 2014 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Dralves Edwards, DO, was the first African American on the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine campus. And now he and his daughter, Jessica I. Edwards-Shepherd, MS, are TCOM's first African American parent-child legacy. She graduates Friday as part of the Class of 2014, then sets out for Christ Hospital in Jersey City, N.J., where she…
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