Human placenta stress response to maternal COVID-19 infection reinforces maternal-fetal barrier
A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at UTHealth Houston, Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions reveals that maternal COVID-19 infection triggers distinct stress responses in the placenta, including upregulation of preeclampsia-associated genes. The stress…
Humanities Graduation
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The John P. McGovern, MD, Center for Humanities and Ethics celebrates the graduates of the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program and the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration at the 18th Annual Humanities Graduation Banquet, April 10…
No Conflicts
Charles Cox, MD; Christine (Flynn) Weaver, PhD; Vyju Ram, MD; and Meredith Mills, JD; present a plenary session titled “Navigating Conflict of Interest through the lifecycle of innovation,” at the annual AAMC Forum on Conflict of Interest. The presentation explored…
Commencement Countdown
The McGovern Medical School Class of 2025 celebrates commencement on Tuesday, May 13 at NRG Arena. For more details, click here.
Seeing 20/20 becomes possible again for patient
More than a decade after undergoing radial keratotomy surgery in 1990 to correct her myopia, or nearsightedness, Shubhra Ghosh noticed she was beginning to strain her eyes to see. Radial keratotomy, a precursor to Lasik surgery, involved making multiple cuts…
Applications open for 2025 Pruessner Scholarship
The Harris County Academy of Family Physicians is accepting applications for the Harold T. Pruessner, MD, Medical Student Scholarship. The deadline to apply is May 33. Applicants must be third-year medical students in good standing and have completed their family…
Research identifies novel gene regulator of microglial inflammation
Recent research by Gab Seok Kim, PhD, and Sean P. Marrelli, PhD, on interferon proteins and how they spread neuroinflammation in the brain has been published in Nature Communications. Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and…
From hardship to healing: Daniel Martinez’s journey
For Daniel Martinez, the road to medicine didn’t begin in a classroom. It started in the low-income neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Lewisville, Texas, in the emergency rooms where his mother worked nights cleaning up after patients, and in physicians’…
Neuroscience Forum
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications UTHealth Houston Neurosciences hosts the annual Neuroscience Forum, April 2 as part of international Brain Awareness Week. The forum is one of the largest, public neuroscience outreach events in Houston, allowing hundreds of members…
Hopping to the Lab
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The lab of Aaron Cox, PhD, assistant professor in the Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases in the Institute for Molecular Medicine decorated for the Easter holiday in April.