As a leader in academic health and biomedical research training, TTUHSC covers the West Texas region that comprises half of the state’s land mass and is home to 10% of its population. Research at TTUHSC drives innovation and discovery, changing the lives of those it serves. In an effort to grow research excellence at TTUHSC, a project team led by Lance McMahon, Ph.D., recently received a three-year, $1.16 million grant to conduct a capacity-building study.

A technological breakthrough by medical researchers at Tel Aviv University enabled the discovery of a cancer mechanism that prevents the immune system from attacking tumors. The researchers were surprised to find that reversing this mechanism stimulates the immune system to fight the cancer cells, even in types of cancer considered resistant to prevailing forms of immunotherapy. The breakthrough was led by Prof. Carmit Levy, Prof. Yaron Carmi, and PhD student Avishai Maliah from TAU's Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences. The paper was published in the leading journal Nature Communications.

New research is exploring low-cost, non-invasive ways to diagnose Barrett’s esophagus, a condition associated with deadly esophageal cancer, to find effective strategies to identify patients with this condition.

MIT researchers designed tiny particles that can be implanted at a cancer tumor site, where they deliver two types of therapy: heat and chemotherapy.