George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Brain Research Opens at UT Medical School at Houston
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston President Larry R. Kaiser, M.D., far left, presents a plaque to George P. Mitchell.
George and Cynthia Mitchell and their children have founded a new $2.5 million center at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston devoted to eradicating Alzheimer's disease and related brain disorders.
UT's Eric Boerwinkle gets $26 million federal stimulus grant for biomedical research
Project seeks to identify genetic factors influencing common diseases
Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D.
Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., a professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has received a $26 million federal stimulus grant to lead an effort to pinpoint genetic factors affecting the risk of heart, lung and blood diseases. Boerwinkle leads Human Genetics Centers at both The University of Texas School of Public Health and the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), which are part of the UT Health Science Center at Houston.