UTMB Aerospace Medicine is developing an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship, a training program that connects the physiology of high-pressure undersea environments with the low-pressure demands of altitude and spaceflight. The program begins in 2027, and faculty recruitment is open.
Three School of Public and Population Health faculty are among this year's UTMB Faculty Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients. Dr. Kyriakos Markides won Lifetime Achievement in Research, Dr. Soham Al Snih won Excellence in Mentoring, and Dr. Neil Mehta won Excellence in Research.
MPH in Epidemiology graduate Monserrat Hinojosa turned a three-million-record study of latent TB and chronic kidney disease, a dengue surveillance protocol in Lima, and a program evaluation across five schools in Cambodia into a practice of reading data for the people it leaves out.
Human germline gene editing remains highly contested, yet start-ups continue to emerge with the goal of creating gene-edited children. In this presentation, I argue that these founders engage in technomoral entrepreneurship: a strategy of authorization based on persuasion, through which entrepreneurs seek to become legitimate actors in the governance of technological futures.
Grad Student Tiffany Bystra presented a poster, "Affective Immortality, Circumventing Grief: Ethical Concerns Related to Technological Resurrections in Cancer Care," at the 2026 Association of Oncology Social Work conference in Portland, OR. The poster brought into conversation how patient-facing technologies interface with professional roles and responsibilities, legacy planning practices, grief work and traditions, as well as the ethical implications for protecting the dignity of deceased persons.
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