Griffin Baillargeon finishes his MS in Biostatistics and Data Science at UTMB with a capstone on incorporating external control data in clinical trials under Dr. Jang's mentorship, a poster award at the Annual Forum on Aging, and a data analyst role at UTMB Correctional Managed Care.
UTMB doctoral student Zhiwei Hu has been named a Jeane B. Kempner Scholar for 2026-27. The award funds a year of dissertation research on how the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit relates to depression recognition, advance care planning, and hospice use among older adults with dementia.
Dr. Aparicio presented a poster at the Pepper Center Annual Meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 7-8. In the poster, he discussed aging clocks and the measurement of biological aging, examining the scientific validity, ethical considerations, and regulatory challenges surrounding emerging biomarker-based tools used in geroscience and clinical settings.
Vibhuti Gupta, PhD, received the UT System Rising STARs award on April 28, 2026. The award funds his new DIVA-AI Laboratory at UTMB, where he will develop multimodal AI methods that bring together medical images, clinical notes, genomics, wearables, and other data into one patient view.
Dr. Suresh Bhavnani is having a landmark month. Following his selection last year as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, he was recognized this month by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through a simultaneous "triple spotlight" on his work by the AIM-AHEAD consortium, the All of Us Research Roundup, and at the All of Us Science Day.
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