The Interdisciplinary Research and Education Building will be five stories and 53,000 square feet, including a 3,000 square foot lab with a medical clinic and learning center. The school is paying for the new building with an $80 million grant from the Texas Legislature. Full Story
Dr. Tawanda Gumbo has dedicated his life to researching tuberculosis, and discoveries made in his East Dallas laboratory may change how other infectious diseases are treated around the globe. Full Story
By Geoffery C. Orsak Robert Rennaker didn’t follow a traditional path to becoming a world-class engineering researcher. Raised in Topeka, Kansas, and moving regularly from city to city across the Midwest because of the demands of his father’s work, Rennaker wasn’t what you’d call “committed” to high school. In his senior year, he decided to join the military, signed up with the Marine Corps, and shipped off to boot camp in San Diego. After surviving what he calls the toughest 12 weeks of his life, he was assigned in 1989 to repair the hydraulic and pneumatic systems on the CH-46 Sea… Full Story
Sauvage, as it turns out, is a mentor to Dr. Jacques Lux, an assistant professor of radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Sauvage was who, as the committee noted, took “the first step towards a molecular machine.” Full Story
BioNorthTX, the advocacy and trade association for the region’s biotech companies, has a new president and has added board members. Full Story
Over eight days in September, Baylor University Medical Center performed the first four living-donor uterine transplants ever done in North America. Three of those had to be taken out, but the East Dallas hospital remains “cautiously optimistic” that the fourth patient will be the nation’s first to achieve uterine functionality after a transplant. Full Story
Researchers at the University of North Texas have reportedly identified a protein linked to the growth of cancerous tumors, a discovery that they hope will help curb the development of fast-growing aggressive forms of breast cancer. Full Story
An assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington has received $100,000 to pursue 3-D printing of human tissues and organs that would, ideally, be able to interact with living cells. Full Story
Irving-based USMD Holdings has agreed to a $254.5 million sale to San Antonio’s WellMed, a provider network of nearly 11,000 physicians at 127 locations in Texas and Florida. Full Story
The Kaiser Family Foundation published a wide-ranging survey of the public on Thursday, revealing that the public is increasingly desiring the online access of their health records. Full Story
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