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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)

Jan. 12, 2022

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).

Taylor Halsey, Mikayla Waters, Joseph DeCunha, Ruoyu Wang

4 GSBS students awarded UTHealth CPRIT fellowships

UTHealth创新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 DeCunha, Taylor Halsey, Ruoyu Wang, and Mikayla Waters were among the recipients.

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 who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to 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 Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Award from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR).

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

Side-by-side headshots of Harold Alonso Henson, RDH, PhD, and Claire Narvaez Singletary, MS, CGC.

Henson, Singletary recognized by UT System Board of Regents for excellence in teaching

Harold Alonso Henson, RDH, PhD, and Claire Narvaez Singletary, MS, CGC, were among the 14 recipients of The University of Texas System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award for 2021.

December 6, 2021

Researchers at UTHealth Houston will use telehealth in an effort to reduce existing racial disparities in blood pressure control and stroke recurrence among stroke survivors. (Photo by Getty Images)

Sharrief awarded $3.1M NIH grant to test whether telehealth improves racial disparities in outcomes for stroke survivors

A trial testing whether multidisciplinary telehealth intervention will help improve racial disparities in outcomes for adult stroke survivors will be launched at The University of Texas Health Science ...

December 6, 2021

Image made of three headshots (from left to right: Monica Guidry, Robin Riggs, and Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban. (Photos and graphic by UTHealth Houston)

Ganduglia Cazaban, Guidry, Riggs earn UTHealth Houston President’s Awards for Leadership

The 2021 recipients of the President’s Awards for Leadership at UTHealth Houston are Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban, MD, DrPH, assistant professor with UTHealth School of Public Health; Monica K. Guidry...

December 3, 2021