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Petra Jans Pederson Wins Best Poster At LSOM Research Day

Petra Jans Pederson won Top Graduate Student Poster at this year’s Virtual Research Day 2020 hosted by the Long School of Medicine. Pederson is a 5th  year dual degree student (M.D./Ph.D.) in the South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program, and a GS3 in the IBMS program in the...
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In Press: Shaimar Gonzalez Co-Authors A Chapter in Principles of Tissue Engineering

I recently co-authored a chapter entitled “Cell and matrix dynamics in branching Morphogenesis”for the fifth edition of Principles of Tissue Engineering, edited by Robert Lanza, Robert Langer, Joseph P. Vacanti, and Anthony Atala. The chapter focuses on branching morphogenesis, a...
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In Press: Daniel Chupp Publishes in Science Advances

The Pipette Gazette recently interviewed Daniel Chupp, a student in the Molecular Immunology & Microbiology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program about his new publication, “B cell Sirt1 deacetylates histone and non-histone proteins for epigenetic...
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Meilinn Tram Named SGA Representative of the Year

Meilinn Tram, a second year D.D.S./Ph.D. student has been named Student Government Association (SGA) representative of the year. Tram has been part of SGA since starting the D.D.S./Ph.D. program in 2018. “I am humbled by being chosen for this award and being recognized for...
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In Press: Henry Miller Publishes First Author Paper in MDPI Cancers

Researchers in the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute recently published  in MDPI Cancers as part of a special issue on Ewing sarcoma. Their study, titled “Reconstruction of Ewing Sarcoma Developmental Context from Mass-Scale Transcriptomics Reveals Characteristics of...
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Meet the Researcher: Victoria Bry & Her Passion For Medical Physics

From a young age, Victoria has always aspired to understand how the world works and she became passionate about science as she learned it provides the foundation for this knowledge. Bry is originally from San Diego and received her bachelor’s degree in physics at Colorado...
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Meet the Researcher: 9 Questions With Justin Moroney

1) Your name, program, mentor name. My name is Justin Moroney and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Paolo Casali’s lab in Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics. I am part of the Molecular Immunology & Microbiology discipline in the Integrated...
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Q&A With Samantha Yee

Your name, program, mentor name. My name is Samantha Yee, but I prefer Sam as my nickname. I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Dr. April L. Risinger’s lab in the Physiology & Pharmacology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program in the UT Health San Antonio...
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