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GSBS scholarship inspires a new generation of giving

GSBS scholarship inspires a new generation of giving

Growing up, GSBS Quantitative Sciences alumna Yanhong Zhou, PhD, always dreamed of doing something to improve the lives of her family and neighbors in Guizhou, China. After moving to the United States,...
January 31, 2022
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QS student Sunyi Chi wins award from ASA Biometrics Section

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....
January 27, 2022
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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
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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...
January 12, 2022
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Alumnus John J. Kopchick, PhD, and his wife, Charlene.

MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School 2021 Kopchick Fellows

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences announced the 2021 recipients of the Dr. John J. and Charlene Kopchick Fellowships, which are funded through...
January 11, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, holds test tubes in the IMM

A bridge to better health

Bridges connect distant people and places, linking entire communities through architectural marvels. These structures came to take on a different meaning for Harry E. Bovay, Jr., who worked to bridge...
November 30, 2021
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