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Focus Daily News 2021 Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section (TMA-MSS) Student of the Year Award Whitney Stuard, a sixth-year MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern Medical School (UT Southwestern), received the 2021 Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section (TMA-MSS) Student of the Year Award. TMA’s House of Delegates policymaking body announced Ms. Stuard’s award today during TexMed, TMA’s annual conference, held virtually. “The members of TMA have been upholding a commitment to health care, leadership, professionalism, and ser...

IMAGE: Jessica Hallman Silverman, who joined the College of Information Sciences and Technology last year as an assistant professor with a focus in biomedical statistics, made global headlines last summer for his study suggesting that 80% of U.S. COVID-19 cases went undetected in March 2020. He and his research team analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the number of patients who sought medical care for influenza-like illnesses during that time span. That number, said Silverman, was far in excess over what was reported in previous years. By applying probab...

Previously, Wende’s group assisted in a study that identified links between DNA methylation in all cause heart failure associated with the ability to use different metabolic fuels to maintain contractility, namely a decrease in oxidative metabolism.[2] An additional study from the group found molecular mechanisms specific to ischemic heart failure, which identified a key epigenetic regulator (i.e. EZH2) as likely having an active role in gene expression regulation involved in both metabolic and structural remodeling.[3]  In the new study highlighted here, the research group and lead invest...

Study sheds light on how tau aggregates promote Alzheimer’s disease Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer's disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you'll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau. Such conditions, collectively known as "tauopathies" strike scores of people across the globe, with Alzheimer's alone affecting six million people in the United States. But more than a century after German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer discovered tau tangles, ...

 E-Mail Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer's disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you'll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau. Such conditions, collectively known as "tauopathies" strike scores of people across the globe, with Alzheimer's alone affecting six million people in the United States. But more than a century after German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer discovered tau tangles, scientists still have much to learn about them. A University...