Posts written by alvarez

LuZhe Sun & Colleagues – Manuscript Accepted by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute!

September 11, 2024

Congratulations to LuZhe Sun and colleagues for acceptance of their manuscript by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The manuscript focuses on multiplication analysis of hepatocellular carcinoma in Hispanic patients.  


Exing Wang – Newly Funded Shared Instrumentation Grant!

August 28, 2024

Congratulations to Exing Wang on a newly funded shared instrumentation grant! The funding is for the acquisition of a Zeiss LSM 980 confocal microscope with Airyscan 2 super-resolution, which is the best confocal system ever made!  


Luke Norton and Edgar Hinostroza – Paper in Molecular Metabolism!

August 19, 2024

Congratulations to Luke Norton and CSA Master of Science student Edgar Hinostroza on their new paper in Molecular Metabolism! “The mitochondrial pyruvate carrier regulates adipose glucose partitioning in female mice”


Alex Bishop – New Grant from the Jeff Gordon Foundation!

June 25, 2024

Congratulations to Alex Bishop for his new grant from the Jeff Gordon Foundation!


Jessica Bergden – Award from the American Association of Clinical Anatomists!

June 25, 2024

Congratulations to Jessica Bergden. She won an award from the American Association of Clinical Anatomists for the Clinical Anatomy Junior Faculty poster award category at their recent national meeting!


Qitao Ran – Newly Awarded R01!

June 14, 2024

Congratulations to Qitao Ran for his newly awarded R01: “The Hippo signaling pathway as a target of intervention for Alzheimer’s disease”!


Juli Bai – New Award from Frost Bank!

June 5, 2024

Congratulations to Juli Bai on receiving a new award from Frost Bank!


Pei Wang & Manjeet Rao – Selected as AES Star Educators!

May 25, 2024

Congratulations to Pei Wang and Manjeet Rao who were selected as AES Star Educators!


Yu Luan – Article on his UT System Rising Star Award!

May 23, 2024

Congratulations to Yu Luan for the article on his UT System Rising Star award! The UT System Rising STARs award announcement is now live on the Newsroom site: Luan receives $100,000 UT System Rising STARs award to research pediatric blood cancers among Hispanics


Body Donation Program – TX Funeral Commission Inspection!

May 22, 2024

On May 21, 2024, the Body Donation Program, Directed by Omid Rahimi, was inspected by a TX Funeral Commission Inspector, as required by state statute. Our program passed the inspection and is good for another 3 years!  The Body Donation Program provides the anatomy labs for more than 500 students per year. Congratulations to Omid […]