Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
Studies by researchers at UTHealth Houston seeking to understand the underlying pathology of Alzheimer’s disease in order to discover new pathways to treatment have earned multiple awards totaling $3.5 million from the Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium (TARCC).
UTHealth Houston has made an unprecedented commitment to nursing science by establishing the interdisciplinary Cizik Nursing Research Institute. Building on the momentum of Cizik School of Nursing’s growing portfolio of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the institute will provide key resources that nurse scientists need to advance meaningful programs of research.
Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, MD, announced today that he will be stepping down from his position as president and Alkek-Williams Distinguished Chair at UTHealth Houston. Colasurdo has served in the role for 12 years—the longest tenure of any UTHealth Houston president—and has overseen a period of tremendous growth for the university.
When I joined the faculty of what is now our McGovern Medical School in 1995 as an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, I never imagined the opportunities that awaited me here at UTHealth Houston. At that time, I expected my career to be spent primarily as an educator training future generations of health providers, as a clinician seeing patients in the clinic and hospital, and as an investigator researching treatments for pulmonary disorders. What has unfolded over these past 29 years has been the honor—and the adventure—of a lifetime.
