March 3, 2023
We are pleased to announce Maria E. Fernández, PhD, as vice president of Population Health and Implementation Science, and Lisa D. Cain, PhD, as associate vice president of Faculty Affairs and Development at UTHealth Houston.
March 2, 2023
Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research from UTHealth Houston.
March 1, 2023
Three grants totaling $15 million, which aim to enhance knowledge of the brain processes that play a key role in speech, epilepsy, and reading, have been awarded to researchers at UTHealth Houston by the National Institutes of Health Brain Research Through Advancing Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
February 23, 2023
A new grant-funded pipeline program focuses on local high school students.
February 23, 2023
Chao Hsing Yeh, PhD, enhances smart-phone app for self-administered auricular point acupressure.
February 21, 2023
Brooks says he believes he is exactly where he wants to be in life, and that his unique path was paved with the help of fate and technology.
February 21, 2023
Four faculty, representing three UTHealth Houston schools, are among the inductees into the 2023 class of The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, MD, Academy of Health Science Education.
The honor is bestowed annually to outstanding faculty from across UT System’s academic health institutions. They will be formally inducted with a ceremony on March 4.
February 16, 2023
Cheryl Navar was 24 weeks into her pregnancy when doctors found multiple tumors in her unborn baby’s heart. Before baby Nora entered the world, her soon-to-be parents sat in their hometown in Corpus Christi to learn about a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).
February 15, 2023
The evidence does not support the common belief that indwelling catheters cause more urinary tract infections (UTIs) than intermittent catheterization, according to a systematic review of bladder management and infection risk from UTHealth Houston.
February 15, 2023
Hongfang Liu, PhD, whose research focuses on using novel health data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and informatics to transfer clinical data into clinical and translational science research and health care delivery improvement, will receive $6 million for her research from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to recruit her to UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics.