GSBS News

2022 GSBS Commencement

UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Friday, May 20, 2022, 4 pm CST. The live stream commencement video will premiere on this webpage on May 20th at 4 pm CST.

Novel Biomarkers

Neuroscience graduate student Zifeng (Tony) Tang is showcasing his research in the Sigma Xi Student Research Showcase event, which is also a competition. You can view Tony's entry through the link provided, and can comment on and "like" his entry. Best of luck, Tony!

Novel biomarkers for the evaluation of traumatic brain injury (tumblr.com)

Career Exploration & Development Events

Welcome! A graduate degree in biomedical science opens doors to a variety of career paths, each requiring some shared and some unique skills.

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Career Exploration Network

A news story on the UT System home page discussed the successful piloting of a virtual networking program aimed at aiding graduate students and postdocs in pursuing the next steps in their careers. The initiative was developed with the 6 University of Texas System Health Institutions, and both UTMB students and alumni participated.

GSBS Commencement 2021

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Alumni News

On Wednesday April 27, mission commander and UTMB alumnus Kjell Lindgren (GSBS/MPH Program), pilot Bob Hines, mission specialist Jessica Watkins of Lafayette, Colorado, and mission specialist Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency successfully launched to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket. https://youtu.be/TSHGHIXzxEM
Read more at https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2022/04/27/nasas-spacex-crew-4-underway-as-freedom-journeys-to-station/

GSBS alumnus Dr. Thomas Marshburn will be making his third trip to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on October 31, 2021. To read more, visit https://utmb.us/66a.

Congratulations to GSBS graduate Dr. Julia Bohannon for receiving the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). Dr. Bohannon is a graduate of the UTMB Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Program and conducted research in the lab of Dr. Tracy Toliver-Kinsky. Dr. Bohannon is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and received her first R01 grant in 2017. Click here to read more.

GSBS alumnus Dr. Thomas George recently received an unexpected 80th birthday gift. Dr. George’s daughter, Caroline George Schaefer, and her husband David made a gift to American University Washington College of Law to create the Thomas W. George Courtroom in honor of Dr. George who is a 1970 an alumnus of American University Washington College of Law and a graduate from the UTMB Medical Humanities Graduate Program. This gift was made to celebrate her father’s eightieth birthday, his esteemed legal and academic career, and his passion for and commitment to AUWCL. Click here to read more.

Jesse Erasmus, PhD, a 2016 Human Pathophysiology and Translational Medicine program graduate, was featured this week in Newsweek. He is currently the director of Virology at HDT Bio, and acting assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Read more ...

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