The University of Texas Medical Branch joined global business and policy leaders this week for a landmark “Brain Capital” summit focused on positioning brain health as a vital economic driver.

After more than 20 years at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Dr. Randall Urban is now vice president and research director of UTMB’s Institute for Translational Science. His work involves bringing scientists and medical professionals together to work on pressing public health issues and move new discoveries from the laboratory to the patient room.

UTMB launched the Center for Health and Clinical Outcomes Research, a university-level initiative that will serve as a central hub for developing, supporting, and accelerating health and clinical outcomes research across the institution.

A newly published study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch offers fresh insights into a critical public health concern: why Americans live shorter lives compared to people in other wealthy nations.

New research out of the University of Texas Medical Branch reveals findings that drug candidate NITD-688 utilized a unique way to stop dengue, a potentially life-threatening infection spread by mosquitos.

Even just low levels of daily physical activity can lead to significant improvements in fitness level, social responsiveness, cognitive flexibility, and planning and organizing abilities in autistic adolescents according to a recent study by Dr. Claudia Hilton.

A new study from researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch has found that individuals with a history of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections face a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. The findings, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, highlight a critical link between HSV-1, which primarily causes oral herpes, and HSV-2 infections, which cause genital herpes, and neurodegenerative disease progression.

Oral obeldesivir, an anti-viral drug, prevents Marburg disease in non-human primates according to research conducted at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Galveston National Laboratory, in collaboration with Gilead Sciences and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Suresh K. Bhavnani, a professor of biomedical informatics in the Department of Biostatistics & Data Science in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch, has been named one of 57 scholars who will form the Presidential Leadership Scholars’ 10th annual class.

"In this study, we're trying to see how mechanobiology could help researchers and clinicians make better diagnosis of the thrombotic risks, especially the risk of arterial thrombosis that are closely associated with cardiovascular diseases," says Dr. Yunfeng Chen, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Texas Medical Branch.