Why choose UTMB Health?

UTMB Health offers innovative care provided with compassion and that is nationally recognized. We embrace a Best Care philosophy, which means that UTMB is committed to making sure each patient receives the right care for the best possible results.

UTMB Health remains committed to expanding access to advanced care on our Galveston, League City, Clear Lake and Angleton Danbury campuses and at more than 90 primary and specialty care clinics in Southeast Texas.

No matter where you enter the UTMB Health network, our providers, clinics and hospitals are seamlessly connected to one another.

Because we are an academic medical center, physicians share knowledge, the most advanced treatment options and leading-edge research – to bring you the benefits of academic medicine close to home.

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More reasons to choose UTMB Health:

Dr. Tiziana Corsello-Gorgun, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics

Corsello-Gorgun awarded $75k to study the role of EVs in fighting RSV

Dr. Tiziana Corsello-Gorgun has been awarded the prestigious Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research to study extracellular vesicles and their role in carrying respiratory syncytial virus infection.

Corsello-Gorgun is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical and Experimental Immunology and Infectious Diseases at UTMB. This award, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, provides up to $75,000 in funding per year for three years.

EVs are particles containing protein messengers that can modulate the function of cells they encounter. Corsello-Gorgun's laboratory will characterize the structure, protein composition and potential antiviral activity of EVs released by human upper airways during episodes of RSV infection.

The long-term goal of this research is to establish new knowledge of EV structure and function in the upper airways and understand their potential to travel to the lower airways, where they may protect the lungs or modulate immune responses during viral respiratory infections.

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