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“This facility will empower researchers and entrepreneurs to collaborate in a unique ecosystem, bringing advances in life sciences closer to practice,” UTMB’s Dr. Jochen Reiser said at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the 7,000 square foot Life Science Incubator.

UTMB was named among the top 107 hospitals and health systems preferred by patients for cardiology according to a WebMD poll. In order to receive the WebMD patient choice award, the hospital or health system must be in the top 30% of patient preferences, excluding Elite award recipients in that category, reported Becker’s ASC Review.

“Kids start to think about dating around sixth or seventh grade, and it’s extremely important to have an ongoing conversation about relationships,” says UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple in this story about relationship abuse. Temple talks about how parents can help their teens as they start to date.

UTMB’s Dr. Scott Weaver is quoted in this story about the first vaccine for chikungunya on it’s way to gaining FDA approval.

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs named the University of Texas Medical Branch as a Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution Leader for 2023.

UTMB’s Dr. Peter Melby helped explain cutaneous leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease newly discovered in Texas, to NPR’s Goats and Soda. The infection may start out looking like a little pimple Melby said, "But over time, weeks and months, it can grow into a chronic ulcer-type lesion. It's not life threatening, but it can be disfiguring, especially if it's on the face." This story was shared by NPR affiliated stations across the nation.

UTMB’s Dr. Jeff Temple was one of the experts consulted for this story on loneliness. Temple provided tips on how to be alone, how to build relationships and when to ask for help.

UTMB and TSU researchers will be using human-centered AI to better understand the social and cultural barriers patients face when getting cancer treatment thanks to a $1 million grant from NIH. “Such social factors, also called social determinants of health, are well-known but have been difficult to analyze and interpret despite the use of powerful machine learning methods,” said UTMB’s Dr. Suresh Bhavnani.

The Houston Chronicle reports on UTMB’s reorganization of the executive leadership team. “Fundamentally, how we run our hospital and how we run our outpatient practice, and what we need from a technology perspective, is going to be represented more by physician leadership,” UTMB’s Dr. Jochen Reiser told the Chronicle. This news was also reported in Becker’s Hospital Review, the Galveston County Daily News and on i45Now.

UTMB’s Dr. Megan Berman and Dr. Richard Rupp write about the possible side effects that come along with some vaccines and the possible difference the more traditional Novavax covid vaccine may make.

Dr. Samuel Mathis writes about the plant-based options for diabetes control in this week’s column for the Daily News.

New research has made advances in achieving hibernation or suspended animation of animals and that could be a boon to long space flights, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in the latest edition of Medical Discovery News.

“Houston has one of the … unfortunately, leading the country in youth gun violence. And it’s increased in recent years,” UTMB’s Jeff Temple told KPRC. Temple and researchers at UTMB will be able to study ways to reduce gun violence thanks to a $2 million grant.