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