November, 2006
Table of Contents
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Young Investigators’ Research Improves Patients’ Lives
Basic and clinical research projects help prevent, diagnose and treat diseases
The following researchers were nominated by their deans and selected by the Research Council as outstanding representatives of the many hard-working young investigators throughout The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
- Improving Ethical Treatment of Chronically Ill Patients
- Affordable Prosthetics for Economically Disadvantaged Patients
- Domestic Partner Violence and Alcohol
- Yeast as a Model for Human Disease
- Preventing and Controlling Tuberculosis in the Hispanic Community
- Molecular Basis of Cancer
- Regulation of Gene Processing in Disease
- Preventing College Alcohol Abuse
- Cellular Basis of Hypertension
By Diana Lazzell, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

