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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences - a joint venture of UTHealth Houston and MD Anderson.
Houston, TX
Joined August 2015
👏Congrats to Neuroscience PhD candidate Mya Rodriguez, recipient of the 2025 Terry J. Crow, PhD, Scholarship in Neuroscience! Her work explores how brain cells stay healthy as we age — which could deepen our understanding of age-related brain function. 🔗 https://t.co/PLA0JN7tWG
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Great job planning, GSA, great questions.
I had the pleasure of joining our Graduate Student Association this afternoon for a thoughtful town hall discussion. We covered important topics including updating faculty profiles to help students find the right labs, career planning, fellowships, and ways to make applications
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Beyond the lab, our faculty, alumni, and students lead impactful programming — such as our recent Symposium featuring faculty presentations from four departments, including Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine; an alumni panel with MD Anderson computational biologists and an
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A glimpse of some of our students in action recently at the Allison Institute Scientific Symposium — sharing their research and exploring advances in immunobiology and immunotherapy. 👏 Congratulations to Immunology program PhD student Annette Wu, who was awarded third place
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Congrats to Microbiology and Infectious Diseases PhD student Dakota Archambault, for winning a best poster award at the Microbiology Society’s Candida and Candidiasis 2025 meeting in Berlin, Germany! Her work shows how Candida albicans changes form to cause infection. @MIDatGSBS
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Our Therapeutics and Pharmacology students had a spooktacular time at the Fall 2025 Retreat! 👻 From silly costumes to an inspiring keynote by S. Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, from University of North Carolina Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, it was full of fun and learning.
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Today's Kopchick Symposium, “Overcoming Barriers in Science,” united scientists at every career stage for a day of learning. Funded by John J. Kopchick, PhD, and Charlene Kopchick, and organized by the Kopchick Fellows, the event fostered powerful student-faculty dialogue.
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Meet Cancer Biology PhD student Andrew Gillard, whose work is advancing oncolytic viroimmunotherapy for brain tumors. As a Dr. John J. Kopchick Fellow, he’s exploring ways to make cancer-targeting viruses more effective. 🔬 Read more: https://t.co/tJkQhrka8g
#CancerResearch
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Halloween fun, with many BOOtiful costumes — at the Therapeutics and Pharmacology Retreat, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases program’s MicroBOOology activities, Genetic Counseling’s pumpkin carving, the Graduate Student Association’s Halloween event, and more! #WeAreGSBS
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See all of the fun MicroBOOology Halloween activity organized by the The Microbiology and Infectious Diseases program @MIDatGSBS!👻
MID continued MicroBOOology with a lab costume contest. Congratulations to the winners: Konovalova lab as "The Addams lab"🎃!
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How do shared protein structures across species reveal new insights into Huntington’s disease? 🔬 Molecular & Translational Biology program PhD student Stephen Farmer, mentored by Sheng Zhang, PhD, explores this in October’s Paper of the Month: https://t.co/dW7zca1BPQ
#WeAreGSBS
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The third presentation in our elevator pitch series features Medical Physics PhD candidate Diana Carrasco — watch to learn about her research involving radiation therapy! Carrasco won first place in the the Graduate Student Research Day Pre-Candidacy PhD, MS & SMS contest.👏
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Our Community Outreach Group was proud to help launch the first-ever Ion Family Tech Festival this past weekend, where K–12 students explored hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) activities. Engaging with young minds made the day unforgettable! 🚀✨
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🧬 From “What’s a biosketch?” to “How do I make mine shine?” — yesterday’s workshop covered it all! Big thanks to Sarah Herzog, PhD, and the First-Generation Student Group for helping students strengthen their grant applications.
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Congrats to alumna Callie Kwartler, PhD, Molecular and Translational Biology professor, on receiving the North American Vascular Biology Organization's 2025 Springer Junior Investigator Award! 🎉 She presented her award lecture at their annual Vascular Biology meeting this week.
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Congratulations on this milestone! Looking good in your lab coats!👏🥼 @MIDatGSBS
Our newest class of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases PhD students were celebrated last week at the @MDA_UTHGrad Lab Coat Ceremony. Congratulations to the Stellar 6!👏🥼
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Thinking about earning a master's degree in biomedical sciences? 🎓🔬Join this week's Discover Biomedicine session tomorrow (3-4 p.m. CST) to learn all about the path to an MS degree in Biomedical Sciences. #DiscoverBiomedicine Register at: https://t.co/YxPov4rTPf
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