Targeting a specific enzyme could alleviate muscle wasting for cancer patients

Targeting a specific enzyme in the muscle could help cancer patients preserve muscle mass and potentially prolong their survival, according to research from UTHealth Houston.

October 18, 2022

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MID PhD student Jennifer Hurtig Q&A

Jennifer Hurtig is a fifth year PhD student in the Microbiology & Infectious Diseases program in the lab of Ambro van Hoof, PhD.  When Jennifer started her undergraduate degree, she did not even...

October 17, 2022

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Ensuring educational success

For people from underserved backgrounds, the road to becoming a health expert is often laden with barriers. Many students must leap hurdle after hurdle to further their education and achieve their dreams&mdash...

October 13, 2022

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Four GSBS faculty members receive more than $2 million in CPRIT funding

Research from Graduate School faculty members Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge, MD, PhD; Jian Hu, PhD; Anirban Maitra, MBBS; and Helen Piwnica-Worms, PhD, was awarded funding from the Cancer Prevention...

October 5, 2022

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GSBS Alum Krithi Rao Bindal, PhD, selected top leader of influence in the life sciences

Krithi Rao Bindal, PhD, graduated from the Cancer Biology program at the MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School in 2012. After achieving this milestone, Bindal paved her own path through life science...

September 13, 2022

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GSBS faculty member Wright named professor emeritus at McGovern Medical School

MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School faculty member Anthony A. Wright, PhD, has been appointed as professor emeritus at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. He was recognized by the Department...

September 12, 2022

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Karen Weinberg named interim Associate Dean for Management

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Karen Weinberg will assume the role of Associate Dean for Management ad interim, effective Oct. 1, where she will be responsible for the finance and...

September 8, 2022

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New antibody shows therapeutic effects in mice with Alzheimer’s disease (UTHealth Houston News)

A newly developed agonistic antibody reduced the amyloid pathology in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, signaling its promise as a potential treatment for the disease, according to a team of researchers...

September 7, 2022

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Howard Hsu receives F99 award for research on stromal lipofibrogenesis in colon cancer progression

Wen-Hao “Howard” Hsu, a PhD student at the MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School in the Cancer Biology program, recently received an F99 award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)...

August 31, 2022

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Meet the Staff, Oscar Sevilla, MEd

Oscar Sevilla, MEd, joined the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this made connecting with...

August 25, 2022

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