University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX·Public·Medical school
25 labs on PI Pages. It spends $419M a year on research and awards 340 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 5,855: 695 undergraduates, 5,160 graduate
- Postdocs
- 369
- Faculty
- 2,031 full-time
- Campus
- Graduate-focused
Labs here
Absalon Gutierrez
Medicine & Clinical Research
Identify molecular signatures of weight and energy-expenditure change after GLP-1 receptor agonist withdrawal using RNA sequencing and DNA methylation analysis of abdominal subcutaneous fat biopsies in 100 adults with obesity.
L Elliot Hong
Neuroscience
Test whether 16 weeks of family-based risk reduction therapy normalizes an MRI-based biomarker of schizophrenia-like brain patterns in children aged 9–18 with family risk but no psychotic symptoms.
Zhongcong Xie
Neuroscience
Determine whether blood pTau217 (Tau phosphorylated at threonine 217) can be generated outside the brain and is driven by gut microbiota and their metabolites IPA and butyric acid, in 400 older adults having orthopedic surgery, using Simoa assays and brain-specific Tau antibodies.
Anne-Marie Krachler
Microbiology & Immunology
Test whether host fecal proteins bound to the EHEC surface, including serpins such as alpha-1 antitrypsin and serpinE2, raise infectivity, by adding individual and combined proteins in controlled exposure and challenge experiments in zebrafish larvae.
Timothy Walker
Public Health & Epidemiology
Optimize a multifaceted implementation strategy for physically active breaks and lessons in elementary schools using Implementation Mapping and user-centered design approaches.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.