SBS News

The School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth welcomes international students and visitors from across the globe to train in our programs and conduct research in our laboratories.   A new page on the SBS website connects current and prospective international students with easy access to helpful […]

Anuradha Kalyanasundaram, PhD, joins the School of Biomedical Sciences as assistant professor in the Department of Physiology and Anatomy. Dr. Kalyanasundaram’s research has spanned several translational studies, which explored functional, structural and molecular mechanisms of human heart failure, human sinoatrial node pathophysiology and arrhythmias including catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation. Her studies focus […]

Biological Anthropologists from across Texas convened at The University of North Texas Health Science Center on Nov. 4 for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists.   HSC’s Center for Anatomical Sciences hosted the annual meeting. Dr. Scott Maddux, Physiology and Anatomy served as chair of the TABA Scientific Program Committee. […]

Researchers at the School of Biomedical Sciences are doing important work to identify and develop treatments for substance use disorders. As part of HSC’s One Pill Kills campaign to promoting opioid and fentanyl awareness and prevention, we’re highlighting their work in a series of video features. Luis Colon-Perez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Neuroscience With a focus on […]

SBS celebrates the retirement of Dr. Dong-Ming Su, professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics and internationally known expert on T cell immunity during aging. Over 14 years at HSC, Dr. Su conducted well-funded research, shared his deep biomedical knowledge and served as a passionate mentor. Congrats Dr. Su and thank you for your dedication to […]

Laszlo Prokai, PhD, has received a Fulbright Specialist Award to share his expertise on drug discovery and design with researchers and students at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary.    The Robert A. Welch Chair in Biochemistry and professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s School of […]

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 SBS 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 […]