Mendez-Figueroa, Rysavy receive prestigious awards
Prestigious grants totaling more than $4 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network (MFMU) and the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) have been awarded to UTHealth Houston. McGovern Medical School is the only institution in…
Melanocortin pathway research published in Nature Communications
Recent research on asymmetry in the melanocortin pathway, from the lab of Qingchun Tong, PhD, professor at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine, has been published in Nature Communications. The melanocortin pathway is…
Cool Off with Pride
Join McGovern Medical School as they kick off their Pride Month celebration with the annual Cool Off With Pride event, June 2 in the MSB Leather Lounge and Webber Plaza. Come and reflect on the History of Pride Month with…
Improving Geriatric Cancer Care
Photos by Dwight Andrews Dr. Supriya Mohile, professor in the Department of Medicine, Surgery, Hematology/Oncology and the vice chair for Academic Affairs at the University of Rochester Medical Center, delivers the Cheves Smythe Distinguished Lecture in Education and Geriatric Medicine…
3D Brain
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications Oscar Woolnough, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, displays his 3D-printed brain during the Postdoc Popsicle social, April 27.
Faculty put pen to paper in writer’s workshop
McGovern Medical School faculty have put a new twist on the adage “publish or perish” with their participation in the first McGovern Center Writing Fellows program. The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics just wrapped up the inaugural writing program…
Professor’s son aids wounded on Ukraine frontline
A son’s spirit of adventure meant an early Thanksgiving for Emily Robinson, MD, professor of surgery, and her family this past year. “Chris told me two days before he left Houston that he was off to volunteer as a critical…
Cryo-EM helps to map mitochondrial function
Research led by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology using cryo-electron microscopy has shed light on the importance of phospholipids in mitochondria function, paving further mechanistic understanding of these cell power plants. “Structural insights into cardiolipin replacement by phosphatidylglycerol…
HHS funding to study clinic process, prevent errors
Improving the diagnostic process and preventing errors are the focus of two studies funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and led by Eric Thomas, MD, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and associate dean for…
The Motivation to Act
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications Ann Graybiel, PhD, professor at The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, delivers the Distinguished Lecture in the Neurosciences May 11. The topic of her lecture was “The Basal Ganglia and the Motivation…