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QS student Sunyi Chi wins award from ASA Biometrics Section

Jan. 27, 2022

QS student Sunyi Chi wins award from ASA Biometrics Section

Chi, a PhD student affiliated with the GSBS Program in Quantitative Sciences, was selected to receive an American Statistical Association (ASA) Biometrics Section Early Career/Student Paper Award. Her research “Mediation analysis of survival outcome and high-dimensional omics mediators with application to complex diseases” was among the awarded papers selected from over 120 submissions. Her advisors are Peng Wei, PhD, and Xuelin Huang, PhD.

Research from Mircea Chelaru, PhD (left), and Valentin Dragoi, PhD (right), on cortical populations was published in the journal, Neuron.

Research in Dragoi lab on cortical populations published in Neuron

Research from the lab of GSB faculty member Valentin Dragoi, PhD, studying neuronal interactions in visual and prefrontal cortical areas has been published in Neuron.

January 26, 2022

GSBS alumni play key role on school’s DEI committee

GSBS alumni play key role on school’s DEI committee

In 2021, the Graduate School established its first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee to ensure that the school creates and maintains an environment that is inclusive and equitable for all its students. The other duties of the committee include: regular assessment of the community; establishing impactful training and programming; reviewing GSBS data and setting benchmarks; surveying GSBS policies and mission; and making recommendations to GSBS leadership.

January 25, 2022

UTHealth Houston researchers are investigating how a special MRI protocol can help understand which patients might be at risk for hematoma expansion after intracerebral hemorrhage. (Photo by Getty Images)

Researchers studying how special MRI protocol can help treat patients with brain hemorrhages

A study designed to determine how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to help clinicians treat patients with brain hemorrhages is underway at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).

January 12, 2022

Taylor Halsey, Mikayla Waters, Joseph DeCunha, Ruoyu Wang

4 GSBS students awarded UTHealth CPRIT fellowships

The UTHealth Innovation in Cancer Prevention Research Training Program funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has announced the 2021-2022 fellows and GSBS students Joseph...

January 6, 2022

GSBS faculty member Zhiqiang An, PhD

An earns National Academy of Inventors fellowship

GSBS faculty member Zhiqiang An, PhD, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced Dec. 7. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors...

January 3, 2022

Photo of Andrey Tsvetkov, PhD

Tsvetkov wins gerontology award from AFAR

Andrey Tsvetkov, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and Graduate School faculty member, has been awarded the Glenn Foundation for Medical...

January 3, 2022

MD/PhD student Kareem Wahid

GSBS student Kareem Wahid receives NIH F31 fellowship

MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School MD/PhD student Kareem Wahid received an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related...

December 17, 2021

Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings

Tips from the GSBS on how to have a healthy 2021 holiday season

As we wrap up another historic year, we here at the GSBS hope that you will use this holiday break as an opportunity to reflect, relax, and rejuvenate yourself for 2022. This story includes some ideas...

December 16, 2021

An international survey found that 27.5% of participants experienced cluster headaches as children, but only 15.2% of participants with pediatric onset were diagnosed before the age of 18. (Photo by Getty Images)

UTHealth Houston researchers uncover new findings about cluster headaches

Debilitating cluster headaches commonly begin in childhood, but patients are not typically diagnosed until they are adults, according to research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston...

December 8, 2021