Research sheds light on oxygen treatment for cardiovascular diseases
Collaborative research from two McGovern Medical School departments on the role of oxygen in cardiovascular disease treatment recently was published in Nature Reviews Cardiology (Impact Factor 49.4). Basic scientists and clinicians from the departments of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain…
Not All Wounds Are Visible
Graphic by Omar Aguado/Office of Communications June is designated as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are currently 12 million people in the United States living with PTSD. Even though PTSD…
Cool Off With Pride
Photos by Roy Prichard/Office of Communications McGovern Medical School students, faculty, and staff, celebrate the beginning of Pride month with the Cool Off With Pride event in the Leather Lounge and Webber Plaza. Participants were treated to a sweet treat…
Teaching Excellence Awards
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications McGovern Medical School faculty receive the annual Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards at a ceremony May 10 in the Fifth Floor Gallery.
18 students named Schweitzer fellows
Eighteen McGovern Medical School students have been accepted to the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship class of 2023-24. Panayiotis D. Kontoyiannis, Madilyn Feik, Sanjay Neerukonda, William Lavercombe, Sana Khan, Breanna Alonzo, Courtney Huynh, Mary Li, Bryana Stigers, Amira Bajracharya, Niveya James, Preethi…
First Person: Scholar to Council Member: An Alumnus Success Story
First person is an occasional series, providing firsthand accounts of outreach programs involving our McGovern Medical School community. This story originally appeared in the 2022 JAMP Program Repot. A few months ago, I sat for the first time as a…
Surrain wins NIH Pathway to Independence Award
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Sarah Surrain, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the Children’s Learning Institute, with the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. The Pathway to Independence Award is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral…
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…