April 25, 2025

UTHealth Houston Institute on Aging Announces 2024 Translational Aging Research Pilot Funding Recipients

These funds have been awarded to two researchers for their innovative studies aimed at exploring the effects of social adversity on aging and health outcomes in older adults. Jessica Lee, MD, MS: Multi-Omics of Frailty and Social Adversity in Homebound Older…


April 25, 2025

NIH Roybal grant funds country’s first elder mistreatment research center in Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston

Five-year, $5.3 million award is university’s first from prestigious program funded by the National Institute on Aging. Decades of leadership in the field of elder mistreatment research has earned UTHealth Houston its first grant from the prestigious Edward R. Roybal…


September 3, 2024

Rare genetic variants linked to bicuspid aortic valve disease in young adults identified by UTHealth Houston researchers

Genetic variants linked to a rare form of bicuspid aortic valve disease that affects young adults and can lead to dangerous and potentially life-threatening aortic complications have been identified by researchers at UTHealth Houston. The study was published today in the American Journal…


August 27, 2024

UTHealth Houston researchers launch $3.3M study on how eating patterns and circadian rhythms impact aging

A groundbreaking research project to understand how diet and eating patterns can affect the body’s internal clock and influence aging is underway at UTHealth Houston, thanks to a $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. The study is…


June 21, 2024

AI and Genetic Diseases

McGovern Medical School research employs artificial intelligence to improve the diagnosis and treatment of hereditary conditions such as Marfan syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, and vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.


June 10, 2024

Beta-blockers may help decrease bone loss in male patients with dementia, according to UTHealth Houston study

Men with dementia who were taking beta-blockers showed a slight decrease in the rate of bone loss compared with men who were not, according to a small observational study led by researchers at UTHealth Houston. Women in the study, published in Calcified Tissue…


April 18, 2024

In Memoriam: Dr. Barbara Murray

Barbara E. Murray, MD, J. Ralph Meadows Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, died April 11, 2024. She was 76. A member of the Medical School’s ID faculty since 1980, she was a…


October 3, 2023

Researchers uncover why a gene mutant causes young children to have strokes

A discovery of a mutation in the gene ACTA2 has given researchers, led by Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD, with UTHealth Houston, insight into understanding the cause of a rare and progressive problem with arteries in the brain and a cause…


June 23, 2023

UTHealth Houston researcher awarded over $5M to study and improve the diagnostic process in clinics to prevent errors

Improving the diagnostic process and preventing errors are the focus of two studies funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and led by Eric Thomas, MD, associate dean for health care quality with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth…