• 50 Experts to Trust in a Pandemic

    UTMB’s Vineet Menachery was named one of the 50 people to follow during a pandemic by Elemental, a health and science publication by Medium. Menachery leads one of the few labs in the country that was studying coronaviruses before the pandemic began.

  • The NIH Launches a Global Hunt for Animal-to-Human Diseases

    “We’ve all learned the hard way that every time there is an emergence, that triggers some sort of disorganized scramble,” UTMB's Nikos Vasilakis tells WIRED. UTMB is part of a new network to detect and respond when pathogens jump from wildlife to humans.

  • The Sealy & Smith Foundation establishes John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Innovations in Molecular Biology at UTMB

    A $1 million gift from The Sealy & Smith Foundation has established the John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Innovations in Molecular Biology at The University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Pei-Yong Shi, a professor in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department and vice chair for Innovation and Commercialization, has been named the inaugural recipient.

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    UTMB Wins Award for Health Education Center

    The University of Texas Medical Branch’s newest facility, the Health Education Center, has won a Best Project Award of Merit from a national construction news publication. The award for the state-of-the-art building on the Galveston Campus will be featured in the Sept. 28 issue of Engineering News-Record. The award will be presented at a virtual ceremony on Oct. 23.

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    UTMB leading new international centers for anticipating and countering infectious diseases

    The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is in the unique position to have been awarded funding to launch 2 of the 10 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-supported Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). The Coordinating Research on Emerging Arboviral Threats Encompassing the Neotropics (CREATE-NEO) center (1 U01 AI151807-01) led by Dr. Nikos Vasilakis and the West African Center of Emerging Infectious Diseases (WAC-EID; 1 U01 AI151801-01) led by Dr. Scott Weaver will coordinate efforts with the other NIAID funded centers around the globe where emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks are likely to occur. Multidisciplinary teams of investigators will conduct pathogen/host/vector surveillance, study pathogen transmission, pathogenesis and immunologic responses in the host, and will develop reagents and diagnostic assays for improved detection for important emerging pathogens and their vectors.

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    Why doesn’t Ebola cause disease in bats, as it does in people?

    A new study by researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston uncovered new information on why the Ebola virus can live within bats without causing them harm, while the same virus wreaks deadly havoc to people. This study is now available in Cell Reports.

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    $6.3 million grant renews UTMB's Pepper Center

    A specialized research center at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that helps older adults has received a $6.3 million renewal of its grant from the National Institute on Aging. The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at UTMB has been continually funded since 2000.

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    Researchers uncovered the Zika virus mutation responsible for quick spread, birth defects

    A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has uncovered a Zika virus mutation that may be responsible for the explosive viral transmission in 2015/2016 and for the cause of microcephaly (babies with small heads) born to infected pregnant women. The study is currently available in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

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