The University of Texas Medical Branch now is a part of a global network that promotes student entrepreneurship, training, and mentoring with academic and industry professionals.

A team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) focused on drug addiction research have pioneered a new way to study frustration as a factor in substance use disorders. The study was published in the medical journal Psychopharmacology.

A collaborative team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Pfizer has shown that the common mutations of SARS-CoV-2 that have appeared in the United Kingdom and South Africa strains of the virus can be neutralized by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

The results of a study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch may pave the way for a new medicine delivery system that could reduce the incidence of pre-term labor and premature birth by allowing physicians to treat the ‘fetus as the patient’. The study has been published in Science Advances.

In times of calamity and uncertainty, we are often told to look for the helpers. But what happens when no one is looking out for them? Domestic violence and sexual assault has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and, with it, the demands on those who provide services and support to survivors. But while the demands are up for domestic violence and sexual assault workforce, the resources and support for these essential workers has not increased.

On Tuesday, Dec. 15, UTMB received and began administering the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to its “first-tier” health care workers—those frontline employees who are at elevated risk for occupational exposure to the virus.

A team of physicians, environmental scientists, and students at the University of Texas Medical Branch have completed a multi-year study of cancer rates among individuals living in close proximity to oil refineries and have found statistically significant increases in several cancers among those living nearest to these facilities.