Harry Karmouty-Quintana, PhD, and Shervin Assassi, MD, MS, are highlighting new collaborative discoveries that advance understanding of systemic sclerosis.
April 13, 2026

Collaboration fuels new insights into systemic sclerosis

Investigators from the Pulmonary Center of Excellence at UTHealth Houston are highlighting new collaborative discoveries that advance understanding of systemic sclerosis, a complex autoimmune disease that drives fibrosis across multiple organs. A recent study co-led by Harry Karmouty-Quintana, PhD, associate professor…


scleroderma
November 13, 2025

McGovern Medical School leads scleroderma research with microbiome transplantation

For people living with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease, severe symptoms can become a daily struggle with no effective treatments available. At McGovern Medical School, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan, MD, MHS, is leading a clinical trial exploring microbiome transplantation, a promising…


Shervin Assassi, MD, MS
October 27, 2025

Assassi Honored as NSF Doctor of the Year

Shervin Assassi, MD, MS, professor; Dr. Noranna B. Warner Endowed Chair in the Division of Rheumatology; and George S. Bruce, Jr. Professor in Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases, was named the “Doctor of the Year” at the annual National Scleroderma Foundation meeting for…