Dr. Aparicio presented a poster at the Pepper Center Annual Meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 7-8. In the poster, he discussed aging clocks and the measurement of biological aging, examining the scientific validity, ethical considerations, and regulatory challenges surrounding emerging biomarker-based tools used in geroscience and clinical settings.
Vibhuti Gupta, PhD, received the UT System Rising STARs award on April 28, 2026. The award funds his new DIVA-AI Laboratory at UTMB, where he will develop multimodal AI methods that bring together medical images, clinical notes, genomics, wearables, and other data into one patient view.
Dr. Suresh Bhavnani is having a landmark month. Following his selection last year as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, he was recognized this month by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through a simultaneous "triple spotlight" on his work by the AIM-AHEAD consortium, the All of Us Research Roundup, and at the All of Us Science Day.
Assistant Professor Dr. Stephen Molldrem is senior author on a recent publication in the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics with first author Dr. Rebecca Permar. Dr. Permar is a graduate of the UTMB Bioethics and Health Humanities PhD program. The paper describes methods used in an empirical bioethics project about stakeholders’ views on uses of genomic sequencing for tuberculosis (TB) in Botswana. The team created an animated video series used to educate participants about the many uses of this complex technology in the management of TB. This research was funded by an NIH bioethics supplement project directed by Dr. Molldrem.
Dr. Miriam Rich's first book, Monstrous Conceptions (Columbia University Press, July 2026), traces the history of "monstrosity" as a formal scientific category in American medicine and examines how that category shaped enduring ideas about race, sex, and disability.
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