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We are tremendously proud of all of our students and their accomplishments. On April 20, we came together to celebrate their success at the annual CBTS Awards Banquet. Congratulations to all award recipients! Dean’s Awards Alexa Kelly, Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement in Academics Jessica Proulx, Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement in Research Program Awards […]
Oral Presentation Award First Place, Jonna Smith, A new rodent model of preeclampsia: Pregnant daughters from hypertensive placental ischemic moms have hypertension Second Place, K. Austin Davis, Induced Blood Flow Oscillations at 0.1 Hz Protects Oxygenation of Severely Ischemic Tissue Postdoctoral Poster Presentation First Place, Julio Rincon, Microfluidic Chip for the evaluation of therapeutics and carrier drugs in […]
Austin Davis and Selina Tucker, both Ph.D. candidates in The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, were awarded two-year predoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association. AHA grants predoctoral fellowships to enhance the research and clinical training of promising students pursuing careers aimed at improving global […]
Congrats Libby Bradley, PhD candidate in Physiology and Anatomy! Libby was awarded an Education Research Scholarship from the American Association of Anatomy.
Since 2003, Wheels for Wellness, Inc. and a previous foundation with similar goals have donated more than $266,000 to help fund cancer research initiatives at HSC, including the research of Drs. Bruce Bunnell, chair and professor of Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics, at HSC’s College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, and Andras Lacko, emeritus professor. The […]
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.”
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