UTHealth Houston ranks among nation’s best in NIH funding
UTHealth Houston again ranks among the nation’s leading institutions for National Institutes of Health research funding, according to the latest annual analysis by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (external link). The rankings measure NIH funding awarded during the previous…
McGovern Medical School physicians lead ultrasound training for Ukrainian doctors
A collaborative international effort led by Ajai Sambasivan, MD, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, and Grant H. Chen, MD, MBA, associate professor of anesthesiology, critical care and pain medicine at the…
New clinical trial tests gene therapy vector for overactive bladder in SCI patients
A modified herpes virus that targets spinal cord nerve cells to treat neurogenic bladder in people with spinal cord injury is underway in a first-in-human clinical trial (external link) by UTHealth Houston at TIRR Memorial Hermann. Neurogenic bladder, also called…