Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
March 18, 2025
From personal tragedy to volunteer work to a classmate’s enlightening speech, they were inspired by different events onto a common pathway that will lead to a career in medicine. On Friday, March 21, these students are among more than 200 fellow classmates at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston who will take the next step during Match Day.
March 14, 2025
A stem cell therapy trial aimed at reducing neuroinflammation in patients with presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease is underway at UTHealth Houston.
March 6, 2025
UTHealth Houston continues to rank among the nation’s top institutions for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding, according to the latest annual rankings from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
February 25, 2025
At a topping out ceremony on Feb. 24, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health — ranked the 2024 Top Public Health school in Texas by U.S. News & World Report — celebrated the final beam being placed on its new 10-story, 350,000-square-foot facility, currently under construction in the Texas Medical Center’s Helix Park.
February 18, 2025
A new at-home telerehabilitation care service for stroke patients will be offered to residents of Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley as part of a randomized clinical trial led by researchers from across UTHealth Houston.
February 13, 2025
University of Texas System Board of Regents Chairman Kevin P. Eltife has appointed a presidential search advisory committee to support the regents and chancellor on selecting the next president of UTHealth Houston.
February 11, 2025
A modified herpes virus that targets spinal cord nerve cells to treat neurogenic bladder in people with spinal cord injury is underway in a first-in-human clinical trial by UTHealth Houston at TIRR Memorial Hermann.
February 4, 2025
An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and smoking – considered to be a relatively recent societal curse – are all risk factors to heart disease. But if that is the case, did heart disease exist thousands of years ago?
January 24, 2025
Five years after the first groundbreaking fetoscopic spina bifida repair surgery using an innovative patch pioneered by researchers at UTHealth Houston, the fetal medicine team is celebrating the milestone of more than 100 procedures performed by the physicians and the launch of the UTHealth Houston Fetal Institute.
January 23, 2025
Unlocking knowledge about the vast and varied collection of viruses that live in and on our bodies is the goal of a $20 million grant from the Common Fund of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to researchers, including a team at UTHealth Houston.
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