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March 9, 2023

Thriving on challenges: Gastroenterologist helps mold program into a crucial powerhouse

Written By: John Evans | Updated: March 9, 2023
As a teenager in his native Turkey, Atilla Ertan, MD, spent every day after school in the hospital—but not for himself. “My younger sister had developed a heart problem and had to stay there,” he says. “When I went to see her, I always left impressed with the doctors.”
March 9, 2023

Study: Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Written By: Caitie Barkley | Updated: March 9, 2023
Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research from UTHealth Houston.
March 9, 2023

UTHealth Houston researchers awarded $15M in NIH BRAIN grants to study speech, epilepsy, and dyslexia

Written By: Caitie Barkley | Updated: March 9, 2023
Three grants totaling $15 million, which aim to enhance knowledge of the brain processes that play a key role in speech, epilepsy, and reading, have been awarded to researchers at UTHealth Houston by the National Institutes of Health Brain Research Through Advancing Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
February 17, 2023

Clinical drug trial research brings hope for children who have rare tumor disease

Written By: Courtney Saenz | Updated: February 17, 2023
Cheryl Navar was 24 weeks into her pregnancy when doctors found multiple tumors in her unborn baby’s heart. Before baby Nora entered the world, her soon-to-be parents sat in their hometown in Corpus Christi to learn about a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). 
February 6, 2023

In patients with mild cognitive impairment, apathy can be a predictor of Alzheimer’s disease

Written By: Halle Jones | Updated: February 6, 2023
The presence of apathy in patients with mild cognitive impairment is strongly linked to a progression to Alzheimer’s disease, giving physicians a possible early diagnosis tool, according to UTHealth Houston research published recently in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
January 18, 2023

Radiofrequency ablation successful in reducing pancreatic tumor progression in preclinical trial

Written By: Roman Petrowski, McGovern Medical School | Updated: January 18, 2023
Recent research on a novel approach to the treatment of pancreatic cancer, from the lab of Jennifer Bailey, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has been published in Cancer Immunology Research.
January 6, 2023

Jayaraman awarded $3.5M grant to study glutamate receptors involved in learning, memory, and other neurological processes

Written By: Caitie Barkley | Updated: January 6, 2023
A five-year, nearly $3.5 million grant to study the mechanisms of brain receptors involved in neurological disorders such as learning disabilities has been awarded to Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD, of UTHealth Houston by the National Institutes of Health.

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