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…
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…