A team of endowed professors and vision researchers at the University of Houston has been awarded over $3.6 million by the National Eye Institute to investigate a gene in the eye, crucial for normal vision, but when mutated causes retinal diseases that lead to blindness.  

Pennington Biomedical is proud to host the 2025 Childhood Obesity Conference, presented by the Greaux Health initiative, on Oct. 3 at its C.B. Pennington, Jr. Conference Center. Guests are also invited to a pre-conference Motivational Interviewing Workshop on Thursday, Oct. 2. Registration is now available on the event’s designated Whova page or at bit.ly/2025BeTheReasonConference. 

Increased risk for anxiety may begin before birth, shaped by infection or stressful events during pregnancy, according to a new preclinical study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. While scientists have long known that maternal difficulty during pregnancy may raise a child’s risk for psychiatric illness, the biological pathways between these prenatal experiences and later mental health have been unclear.