Loveland receives education grant
Katherine Loveland, PhD, professor in the Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, received a three-year, $617,038 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant funds training for psychology interns in substance use disorder (SUD) and…
Yammine receives NIDA grant to study smoking cessation
Luba Yammine, PhD, associate professor at the Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was recently awarded a $2,246,422 R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to conduct a four-year study focused on smoking cessation. The overarching…
Psychiatry team wins MindGames competition
Caroline McCool, MD; Hunter Hinman, MD; and Gauri Wable, MD, PhD, residents in the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, teamed up to compete and win the annual resident competition MindGames June 8. MindGames is a national residency…
Houston Addiction Disorders Conference registration opens
Registration is open for the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science’s 2022 UTHealth Houston Addiction Disorders Conference, to be held across Aug. 26-27 at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine (1825 Pressler St.). Special prices…
UTHealth Houston Psychiatry Update set for April 9
Registration is now open for the 2022 UTHealth Houston Psychiatry Update Conference, hosted by the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, April 9 at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (1825 Pressler St.). The symposium is designed…
Selvaraj review on postmortem brain studies published in Molecular Psychiatry
A recent review and meta-analysis of postmortem brain studies from the lab of Sudhakar Selvaraj, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was published in the January edition of Molecular Psychiatry….
Trio receive grants to study bipolar disorder
Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty Jair Soares, MD, PhD; Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, MD, PhD; and Gabriel Fries, PhD, have received grants from the Baszucki Brain Research Fund, partnering with the Milken Institute, aimed at funding innovative…