Several vaccines associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease in adults 65 and older

Prior vaccination against tetanus and diphtheria, with or without pertussis (Tdap/Td); herpes zoster (HZ), better known as shingles; and pneumococcus are all associated with a reduced risk for developing...

August 16, 2023

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Alumna Jovanka Gencel-Augusto, PhD, earns the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship; offers insight into the pursuit of postdoc opportunities

When Gencel-Augusto, PhD ’23, entered her last year at the Graduate School, she knew she wanted to continue her path towards a career in academia, specifically in cancer research. She met with her...

August 9, 2023

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Q&A with Anh Kim Trinh Nguyen, MID student

Anh “Kim” Trinh Nguyen is a 5th year Microbiology & Infectious Diseases PhD student who will soon be defending her research.  Through her experiences and lessons at the Graduate School...

August 2, 2023

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Researchers uncover how a genetic mutation can cause individuals with normal cholesterol levels to develop coronary artery disease at a young age

A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s – with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors — to develop coronary artery...

July 7, 2023

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Different areas of the brain activated depending on structural complexity of music, language

Distinct, though neighboring, areas of the brain are activated when processing music and language, with specific sub-regions engaged for simple melodies versus complex melodies, and for simple versus complex...

July 5, 2023

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Q&A with Erika Flores, MID student

Erika Flores is in the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases program from the lab of Anne-Marie Krachler, PhD.  She studied the validation of larval zebrafish as a model organism of adherent-invasive...

June 21, 2023

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Q&A with PhD Student, Fulbright Scholar Rachel Van Drunen

PhD student Rachel Van Drunen has always had a fascination with science, but when she was a novice summer intern working in a regenerative medicine lab at the Texas Heart Institute, she felt more like ...

June 13, 2023

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Andrea Hernandez earns NIDCR supplement, forges her own way forward

Andrea Hernandez—a PhD student in the Immunology program—joined the lab of Simon Young, DDS, MD, PhD, because her interest in translational work led her to a passion in improving cancer immunotherapy...

May 10, 2023

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Philanthropy instills a desire to pay it forward in the biomedical sciences

Not only is Suman Shrestha, PhD ’22, grateful for the Marilyn and Frederick R. Lummis, Jr., MD, Fellowship that helped make his education possible, he plans to one day ensure others have access to...

April 18, 2023

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Two brain networks are activated while reading, study finds

When a person reads a sentence, two distinct networks in the brain are activated, working together to integrate the meanings of the individual words to obtain more complex, higher-order meaning, according...

April 17, 2023

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