Research Research and Community Initiatives

The Center for Biomedical Research received an R56 Award of $362,800 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project entitled “Dedicator of cytokinesis 2 in pleural fibrosis,” which will study how the protein Dock2 can prevent pleural fibrosis. This bridge award helps greatly for the continued effort to pursue the NIH/NHBLI R01 Award. Guoqing Qian, PhD, assistant professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology for Biomedical Research in the School of Medicine, is the principal investigator for the project that began on September 15, 2022 and ends on August 31, 2023.

The School of Medicine received a collaborative development award (CDA) of $175,000 from the Duke Center for HIV Structural Biology. Maolin Lu, PhD, is the principal investigator for the project entitled “Conformational events and allostery underlying Env antagonism,” which began on December 1, 2022 and ends on November 30, 2023. This project will reveal the mode of action of specific inhibitors and antibodies that target HIV-1 surface spike proteins.

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UT Tyler Admissions staff have begun recruiting for our second class across Texas.

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March 3, 2023