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GSBS alumna Dorrie Lamb, PhD, named faculty affairs associate dean at Weill Cornell

GSBS alumna Dorrie Lamb, PhD, named faculty affairs associate dean at Weill Cornell

In January, MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School alumna Dolores J. (Dorrie) Lamb, PhD, was named associate dean for faculty affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine Urology. Lamb joined Weill Cornell in 2018 ...
March 14, 2022
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GSBS PhD student Carolina García García publishes paper in Gastroenterology; gives advice to first authors

GSBS PhD student Carolina García García publishes paper in Gastroenterology; gives advice to first authors

Cancer Biology PhD student Carolina Garcia Garcia published her paper on hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF1 and HIF2) and their roles in pancreatic cancer in the journal Gastroenterology. While working...
March 9, 2022
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Photo of Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD

Graduate School faculty member Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, elected to UT Shine Academy

Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD, is the Frederick F. Becker Distinguished Endowed Chair of Cancer Research, as well as a professor and chair of the Department of Cancer Biology at MD Anderson. He also serves as...
March 9, 2022
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3 Graduate School faculty members named AAAS Fellows

3 Graduate School faculty members named AAAS Fellows

Faculty members Juan Fueyo, MD, Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD, and Theresa M. Koehler, PhD, were named 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. The 2021 class of AAAS Fellows ...
February 16, 2022
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Graduate School welcomes Emily Rech to communication team

Graduate School welcomes Emily Rech to communication team

Emily Rech joined the Office of Communications and Public Affairs at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences as a communication assistant this ...
February 10, 2022
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Q&A with GSBS MID doctoral student Ileana Corsi

Q&A with GSBS MID doctoral student Ileana Corsi

Ileana Corsi is a fifth year student in the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases program and doctoral candidate in the lab of Theresa Koehler, PhD, whose interest in science started in middle school when...
February 1, 2022
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Q&A with GSBS MID Alumnus Malik Raynor, PhD

Q&A with GSBS MID Alumnus Malik Raynor, PhD

Malik Raynor, PhD, a Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (MID) program alumnus who graduated in spring 2018, always had an interest in figuring out how things work since he was a child. His passion...
February 1, 2022
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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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