Thu Tran, DO

Education

Graduate School: William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Hattiesburg, MS
Residency: Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX
Fellowship: The University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX

Tran, T.T., Eltzschig, H.K. and Yuan, X. (2024), Therapeutic targeting of hypoxia inducible factor in acute respiratory distress syndrome. J Physiol, 602: 5745-5756. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP284599
Tran, T.T., Davies, J., Johnston, R.A, Karmouty-Quintana, H., Li, H., Crocker, C.E., Khan, A., and Alcorn, J. Impact of vitamin D on hyperoxic acute lung injury in neonatal mice. BMC Pulm Med 24, 584 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-024-03391-1
Crocker CE, Sharmeen R, Tran TT, Khan AM, Li W, Alcorn JL. Surfactant Protein A Attenuates Generalized and Localized Neuroinflammation In Neonatal Mice. Brain Res. 2023 Mar 3:148308. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2023.148308. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36871846.

American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics, 2019

2026-2028	Chair of the ATS Respiratory Structure and Function Early Career Professional Working Group
2025	Co-Chair of the ATS Respiratory Structure and Function Early Career Professional Working Group
2025	Southern Society Pediatric Research Young Faculty Award
2025	Institute of Perioperative Medicine, UTHealth, Poster Honorable Mention
2022	Southern Society Pediatric Research Basic Sciences Young Investigator Award
2022	Society of Pediatric Research Fellows’ Basic Research Award
2022	American Thoracic Society Abstract Scholarship
2022	McGovern Medical School UTHSC at Houston Pediatrics Fellows Research Symposium – Excellence in Research First Place Award
2019	Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Award
2018	American Society of Nephrology Kidney Stars Grant
2017	Second Place Poster Session Award, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
2008-2012	Presidential Scholarship, University of St. Thomas
2008-2012	Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Scholars Program
2010	Robert Wood Johnson Summer Medical and Dental Program, UT Houston