February 4, 2025

Celebrating The Commitment of Research and Collaboration: CPM Appreciation Lunch

  On Thursday, January 9, 2025, the Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPM) Appreciation Lunch was held to honor the dedication and contributions for the 120 center members. Hosted as a token of gratitude, the lunch served as a moment to…


September 4, 2024

2024 CPM Multi-PI Pilot Grant Winners

On behalf of Dr. Cynthia Ju and Dr. Holger Eltzschig, the directors of the Center for Perioperative Medicine, I am happy to announce the winners of the 2024 CPM Multi-PI Pilot Grant. Drs. Matthew DeBerge and Kangho Kim Grant Title:…


August 7, 2023

2023 CPM Seed Grant Winners

We would like to congratulate the award recipients of this year’s Multi-PI Collaborative Research Pilot Grants sponsored by the Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPM). The goals of this mechanism are to encourage new research collaborations within the Center and to…


May 26, 2022

Winners of the 2022 McGovern Medical School Pilot Grant

Congratulations to Drs. Cynthia Ju and Kangho Kim for winning the 2022 McGovern Medical School Pilot Grant Award. This award will facilitate close a collaboration between the Ju and Kim Labs to identify functional significance of de novo EET biosynthetic…


April 22, 2022

UTHealth Houston Departments of Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine Team With US Army to Improve Casualty Care

On April 19, 2022, The University of Texas System and the United States Army Futures Command (AFC) announced an official educational and cooperative research partnership to advance medical science and technology to save lives both on and off the battlefield….


April 22, 2022

Department Updates – April 2022

On Tuesday April 5, 2022, the Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPM) hosted its annual National Institutes of Health (NIH) Style Mock Study Section.  A major goal of the CPM is research training for physician-scientists and PhD scientists and a critical…


March 11, 2022

IBD Group 2022 Updates

News Updates: Research on Intestinal Inflammation in the Center for Perioperative Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology at the McGovern Medical School in Houston We would like to express our deep gratitude for the continuing generosity of Mr. Brad McWilliams…


February 22, 2022

Dr. Xiaoyi Yuan Awarded NIH Highest Research Grant

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded its highest offered grant to Xiaoyi Yuan, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, a nearly $2 million Research Project Grant (R01) to fund research on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Dr. Yuan’s project…