In the News Dr. McCullough wins AHA/ASA Neuroscience Visionary Award Dr. McCullough was awarded the 2021 Neuroscience Visionary Award presented by American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association. Dr. McCullough and Dr. Liu awarded $3.7 million NIH grant McCullough and Liu awarded over 3 million dollars to study sex differences in COVID-19 outcomes. Targeting Gut Microbes May Help Stroke Recovery Venugopal Venna, PhD, was interviewed by Scientific American about UTHealth research on whether age-related changes to the microbiome can affect recovery from stroke.