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Alan Myers, PharmD, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology with UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry researcher awarded $2M grant by NIH to study pharmacotoxicity of areca nut

A five-year, $2 million grant to study the pharmacological effects of the areca nut, commonly known as the betel nut, was awarded to a UTHealth Houston researcher by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Gabriela Grangeiro Cruz, a third-year student at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. (Photo provided by Cruz)

Third-year McGovern Medical School student assists in game-changing Alzheimer’s disease discoveries

Though still a third-year student with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Gabriela Grangeiro Cruz is already working to broaden the medical field’s, and the public’s, understanding of Alzheimer’s disease by studying ways to prevent the neurocognitive disorder, which affects 6 million people living in the U.S.

Students at the UTHealth Houston Mass Casualty Incident Training transport a

Mass casualty drill prepares next generation of front-line health care responders

Houston Fire Department’s Val Jahnke Fire Training Facility was host to the eighth UTHealth Houston Mass Casualty Incident Training on Friday, Nov. 17 — a unique and critical training event begun by Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston to bring together students from various health science disciplines at the university to face simulated disaster scenarios.

Colin Hills, BSN, RN, a 2020 graduate, worked in a hospital emergency department before working as a health maintenance systems operations and developing processes and procedures for the International Space Station. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

Cizik School of Nursing faculty and alumni talk about the shifting landscape in nursing profession opportunities

The ratio of men to women in the nursing profession has remained stubbornly low for decades, but male faculty and alumni of Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston see that changing.



UTHealth Houston researcher receives NIH subcontract to study effects of integrated palliative care on Parkinson’s, related dementia

Adriana Pérez, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

As part of a five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Adriana Pérez, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, received a $1.9 million subcontract to determine the scope and drivers of low-value and unequal care for patients with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s disease dementia.




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