
Research Spotlight
Recent articles featuring Texas Tech Health El Paso researchers:
Updated June 3, 2025
Novel Hypothesis for the "Obesity Paradox" in ESKD Subjects on Dialysis
Preoperative factors associated with 180°, 270°, and 360° labral tears
Reevaluating female survival benefit in TAVR: A closer look in the current era
The Community Scientist Program, coordinated by UTHealth Houston and M.D. Anderson, is now offering feedback sessions for El Paso-area researchers. The free program connects researchers with trained community members who can provide valuable feedback on research design, implementation, and recruitment and retention.
This week's topics include large language models and discharge summaries, treating female urinary incontinence, using AI to diagnose diabetic kidney disease, and a Covid/flu vaccine.
This week's topics include implications of protein S, endothelial cell genetic assessment and lipid lowering, cardiac rehab on an app, and vitamin D and respiratory infectious disease.
Health care professionals and community organization staff are invited to attend the 2025 Global Health Conference on Friday, May 2, at Medical Education Building Room 1100. The event is presented by the Office of Global Health and Societies.
The National Institutes of Health is requiring all researchers who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies to use the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) tool to complete the Common Forms and Biosketch by May 25, 2025.
Simulation experts are invited to submit abstracts for the 2025 SimGHOSTS X - El Paso health care simulation education conference, May 15-16, 2025. The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, March 21.
This week's topics include implications of protein S, endothelial cell genetic assessment and lipid lowering, cardiac rehab on an app, and vitamin D and respiratory infectious disease.
Texas Tech Health El Paso researcher Subodh Kumar, Ph.D., M.S., has been awarded a $55,000 grant for his study on an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker within the Hispanic population.
The Office of Research is calling for abstracts for the Institutional Research Symposium taking place on Tuesday, April 8, through Thursday, April 10, 2025, at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
The Department of Pathology’s January 2025 newsletter is now available for download.
Texas Tech Health El Paso has received a highly competitive $445,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, part of which will fund research on gastroparesis in children.
The Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at UTHealth Houston and Texas Tech Health El Paso have formalized their partnership thanks to funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Salma Elwazeer is one of two dentists appointed to Association for Prevention Teaching and Research’s National Task Force.
The Journal of Neurogastroenterology & Motility highlights a successful study of the MoPill wireless capsule, investigated by Texas Tech Health El Paso researchers
Mariela Lane, M.D., an assistant professor and clinical assistant professor at Texas Tech Health El Paso, has been appointed to the Strategic Educators Enhancement Fellowship (SEEF).
Seven distinguished researchers from Texas Tech Health El Paso have been recognized on Stanford University/Elsevier’s prestigious World’s Top 2% of Scientists List.
Goal of $3.1 million research project is to promote the development of non-opioid therapies.
Dr. Kazue Okajima received a grant to research the effectiveness of blood-thinning treatments in Hispanic heart patients.
The grant provides up to $8,500 for SARP projects undertaken by students mentored by Foster School of Medicine Faculty.
The Office of Research invites researchers to submit their abstracts for the 16th Annual Research Symposium at Texas Tech Health El Paso.
The January 2024 Department of Pathology newsletter is now available for download.
Gastroparesis patient Patrick Ellis’s quality of life transformed, thanks to a treatment developed by TTUHSC El Paso gastroenterologists Irene Sarosiek, M.D., and Richard McCallum, M.D.
TTUHSC El Paso is launching its own Cureus Journal of Medical Science channel where our residents, fellows, students, and faculty members can submit their work for publication.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso has received a landmark $6 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Shrikanth S. Gadad, Ph.D. has been awarded a grant from the Edward N. and Margaret G. Marsh Foundation to support breast cancer research.
The Lizanell and Colbert Coldwell Foundation announced grants to support researchers with TTUHSC El Paso who are studying treatments that may increase patients’ odds of surviving cancer and cardiovascular disease.
The Robert E. and Evelyn McKee Foundation has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Southwest Brain Bank at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso.
The Foster School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry is seeking people of Latin American or Hispanic ancestry to participate in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The American Cancer Society has awarded two TTUHSC El Paso researchers grants totaling $1,582,500 to develop therapies for treating breast cancer and leukemia.
Health care professionals and community organization staff are invited to attend the 4th Annual Global Health Conference on Friday, April 21, at the MSB II Auditorium.