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HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology researchers uncover potential mechanism that may prevent cancer at its origin

Posted on: 2009-09-22 16:08:01

Contact: Scott Maier (979) 458-0770 or Cathy Cashio (979) 458-0772
Texas A&M Health Science Center Marketing and Communications

HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology researchers uncover potential mechanism that may prevent cancer at its origin

(HOUSTON) — Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology in Houston have uncovered a potential mechanism that could prevent cancer at its origin.

Their study is in the September issue of the journal Cellular Oncology.

Based on the theory that all cancers begin with a random error during...
Aid comes to UTMB researchers to boost research after Hurricane Ike

Posted on: 2009-09-15 11:23:12

Contact: Jennifer D’Angelo (713) 677-7401 or Scott Maier (979) 458-0770
Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine

Aid comes to UTMB researchers to boost research after Hurricane Ike

(HOUSTON) – The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) – a research institute of the Texas A&M Health Science Center – has created a grant-in-aid program specifically to assist University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) scientists obtain access to research materials in an effort to help speed the recovery of UTMB’s research programs from some of the injuries cause...
Institute of Biosciences and Technology researchers helping bridge “Taiwan Strait”

Posted on: 2009-08-19 08:11:08

Contact: Scott Maier (979) 458-0770 or Cathy Cashio (979) 458-0772
Texas A&M Health Science Center Marketing and Communications

Institute of Biosciences and Technology researchers helping bridge “Taiwan Strait”

(HOUSTON) – China and Taiwan have been at odds for years, but the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology is working to bridge the “Taiwan Strait” by helping develop a new cancer center in China.

The new cancer center comes as China experiences unprecedented modernization and economic growth, leading to increased activity ...
Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine receives EPA funding to study human health risk from chemicals

Posted on: 2009-07-31 13:48:58

Contact: Scott Maier (979) 458-0770 or Cathy Cashio (979) 458-0772
Texas A&M Health Science Center Marketing and Communications

Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine receives EPA funding to study human health risk from chemicals

(COLLEGE STATION, TX) — The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) – a joint research institute of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and Texas A&M University – is a co-recipient of a $3.2 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency and its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program. The primary objective of the grant is to ...
Texas A&M Health Science Center spin-off company NanoRelease Technologies receives Recovery Act supplement funds for vaccine development training

Posted on: 2009-07-14 08:22:44

Contact: Scott Maier (979) 458-0770
Texas A&M Health Science Center Marketing and Communications

Texas A&M Health Science Center spin-off company NanoRelease Technologies receives Recovery Act supplement funds for vaccine development training

(COLLEGE STATION, TX) — The Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) Center for Microencapsulation and Drug Delivery (CMDD) is hosting three students and a science educator who are trainees supported with National Institutes of Health American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for vaccine development training.

The small business grant recipient is...
College of Medicine researchers help create new technology to study Salmonella bacterium

Posted on: 2009-07-02 19:04:19

Contact: Scott Maier (979) 458-0770
Texas A&M Health Science Center Marketing and Communications

College of Medicine researchers help create new technology to study Salmonella bacterium

(COLLEGE STATION, TX) — Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) College of Medicine, in collaboration with the Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego, have created a new genetic technology to study Salmonella, a bacterium responsible for approximately 1.4 million cases of food-borne infections in the United States each year.

The study is available online in the current ...
State of Texas gives investment funding to company co-founded by IBT

Posted on: 2009-07-01 10:20:02

Contact: Kay Kendall (713) 677-7736
Texas A&M Health Science Center Marketing and Communications

State of Texas gives investment funding to company co-founded by IBT

(HOUSTON) — A Houston-based biotechnology company co-founded by a scientist at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology has received an investment award of $250,000 from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF).

The company is Pulmotect, Inc., which Magnus Höök, Ph.D., director and professor of the HSC-IBT Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, co-founded two years ago. The...
Sigma Xi symposium addresses "Stem Cells in Medicine" on March 25

Posted on: 2009-03-17 15:43:14

Contact: Texas A&M University Sigma Xi (979) 845-8585

Sigma Xi symposium addresses "Stem Cells in Medicine" on March 25

(COLLEGE STATION, TX) — Co-sponsored by the Texas A&M Health Science Center, the Texas A&M University chapter of Sigma Xi – the national scientific research society – will conduct a one-day symposium called “Stem Cells in Medicine” on March 25.

The symposium begins at 10:45 a.m. in Rudder Tower Room 501 on the Texas A&M campus in College Station with a welcome from Van Wilson, Ph.D., president-elect of the Texas A&M Sigma Xi chapter and profes...
Governor announces Emerging Technology Fund investment in stem cell research at Texas A&M Health Science Center

Posted on: 2009-02-12 16:32:27

Contact: Summer Morgan (979) 862-4015
Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine
Scott Clark (254) 724-3047
Scott & White Division of Strategy, Marketing and Communications

Governor announces Emerging Technology Fund investment in stem cell research at Texas A&M Health Science Center

(TEMPLE, TX) — Governor Rick Perry today announced a $5 million investment through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) to recruit leading scientists focused on regen...
HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology researchers create potential vaccine against dangerous staph infections

Posted on: 2008-12-23 16:18:06

Contact: Kay Kendall (713) 677-7736 or Scott Maier (979) 458-0770
Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology

HSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology researchers create potential vaccine against dangerous staph infections

(HOUSTON) — Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Houston have created a vaccine based on the toxin Panton Valentine leukocidin (PVL) to protect mice from deep skin infections and pneumonia associated with a bacteria that are increasingly responsible for serious staph infections.
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