Researchers are recruiting adults 65 and older to spend approximately eight weeks using ElliQ, a social companion robot designed to keep seniors healthy, engaged, and informed while alleviating the effects of loneliness and social isolation.
UTMB Researchers found significant geographic and economic disparities in travel time to specialized burn treatment facilities across the United States.
Bukreyev is leading the new UTMB Center for Nucleic Acid Technologies with a vision for turning scientific discoveries into treatments.
The “frustration brake failure” hypothesis suggests frustration may play an important role in substance use disorders alongside craving, impulsivity, and habit.
New publication outlines a patient-centered framework connecting brain health, innovation, and better health outcomes.
Harsh Thaker, MD, PhD, newly appointed chair of the UTMB Department of Pathology, sees pathology as a bridge between science and medicine, researchers and clinicians, and increasingly, between emerging technologies and the delivery of better patient care.
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has migrated its electronic health record (EHR) system Epic from an on-premises environment to Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure platform. The move will enhance security, improve disaster recovery, increase system scalability, and accelerate innovation.
The Center for Correctional Healthcare Excellence at UTMB is advancing research, innovation, education, and clinical care for one of the nation’s most medically vulnerable populations.
Artificial intelligence is transforming medical diagnosis, but bioethicists at UTMB say technology should support, not replace, physicians. Beyond speed and accuracy, they say diagnosis is about trust, patient care, ethics, and protecting privacy.
At UTMB Health, algorithms are used to advance patient care in high-demand specialties, including nephrology, endocrinology, infectious disease, and rheumatology, helping determine which patients should be prioritized. The UTMB ITS core innovation team codevelops and implements these projects.
Competing against six other nurse anesthesia programs, the UTMB team took the coveted boot trophy in the College Bowl Showdown at the Texas Association of Nurse Anesthetists annual meeting.
Three students from The UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences have been awarded highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) F31 predoctoral fellowships.
Two UTMB School of Nursing doctoral students have been selected as members of the 2026-2028 Jonas Scholars cohort.
UTMB is helping Galveston residents discover the benefits of healthier eating through Blue Zones-inspired cooking classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
For Dr. Sheba Luke, a recommendation from her sister led her to graduate nursing school at UTMB. What kept her there was a series of doors that opened and helped shape her career.
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