Women in Medicine & Sciences Feature: Ji Young Yoo, PhD
Each month, the Women Faculty Forum presents its Women in Medicine and Sciences Feature, highlighting the women faculty at McGovern Medical School who are leaders in medicine, research, and education. This month’s feature is Ji Young Yoo, PhD, associate professor…
Novel glioblastoma treatment research published in Neuro-Oncology
Recent research on the discovery of a novel therapeutic treatment using the oncolytic virus to treat patients with glioblastoma, led by Ji Young Yoo, PhD, associate professor, and Tae Jin Lee, PhD, assistant professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department…
8th MASSIN Congress brings global neurosurgery leaders to Houston
The 8th Madjid Samii Society of International Neurosurgery (MASSIN) Congress, held in October, welcomed more than 200 attendees from around the world to the Texas Medical Center, marking a pivotal gathering of neurosurgery professionals. Led by this year’s president, Jacques…
Regua earns women’s cancers development award
Angelina Regua, PhD, assistant professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, was awarded a 2-year, $206,000 grant from the Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award, in partnership with Pelotonia and the American Association for…
Rojas wins award from Congress of Neurological Surgeons
The Congress of Neurological Surgeons presented Pavel Pichardo Rojas, MD, MSc, research assistant in the Department of Neurosurgery, with the AANS/CNS Joint Section, Tumor Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award at the CNS annual meeting, Sept. 9-13 in Washington D.C. “This award not…
Morcos named chair of neurosurgery
Executive Dean John Hancock, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, ScD, announced that following an international search, Jacques Morcos, MD, a highly renowned neurosurgeon, will join McGovern Medical School as the new chair of the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, effective…
UTHealth Houston joins SATURN trial
A clinical trial evaluating the role of statins in the risk of recurrent intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in patients presenting with ICH, has opened for enrollment at UTHealth Houston. The study, led locally by C.J. Jared Chen, MD, assistant professor in…
Research published on novel therapy for choroid plexus carcinoma
A recent case report highlighting a potential novel therapy for adult patients with choroid plexus carcinoma, led by Jay-Jiguang Zhu, MD, PhD, director of neuro-oncology and professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, has been published in JCO Precision Oncology. Choroid…
Different areas of the brain activated depending on structural complexity of music, language
Distinct, though neighboring, areas of the brain are activated when processing music and language, with specific sub-regions engaged for simple melodies versus complex melodies, and for simple versus complex sentences, according to research from UTHealth Houston. The study, led by…
Novel research on neural stem/progenitor cells in adult spinal cord published in Cell Reports
Research from the lab of Jiaqian Wu, PhD, professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery and the Institute of Molecular Medicine, identifying new subpopulations of cells that could be leveraged to promote regeneration following spinal cord injury has…