Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology

Texas A&M researcher Dr. Praveen Rajendran secures $1.32M from NCI PREVENT to study low-dose drug combinations targeting colitis-associated colorectal cancer, in collaboration with Drs. Dashwood (Texas A&M) & Vilar-Sanchez (MD Anderson).

Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology is proud to announce that Dr. Jiang Chang has been selected as the 2025 Thomas Smith Memorial Lecturer by the American Heart Association. This lecture was established in 1997 by the Council on Basic Science to honor Dr. Thomas W. Smith, a pioneer in the application of biochemical, cellular, and molecular approaches to investigative cardiac contractility. The lecture is presented annually at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions. Join us in congratulating Dr. Chang on this wonderful recognition! https://bit.ly/3JZ4V4u

Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology is proud to announce Dr. Wenshe Liu as a 2025 Regents Professor Award Winner. The Regents Professor Award program honors individuals at the rank of professor or equivalent whose outstanding performance in teaching, research, and service has been exemplary and whose achievements impact not only their institution or agency but also the community, the state of Texas, and/or national and international levels. Congratulations Dr. Liu on this impressive honor! https://facultyaffairs.tamu.edu/elevate-your-impact/faculty-awards-recognition/university-awards/the-regents-professors.html

A huge thank you to our incredible sponsors for supporting our research and making the 2025 GSO Research Symposium possible!

Our annual GSO Research Symposium celebrates the incredible research of our students and postdocs! We were honored to welcome astronaut Dr. Kate Rubins as our keynote speaker. Join us in recognizing the achievements of this year’s winners!

🎤 Oral presentations:
1st: Jimmy Wengler
2nd: Logan Rivera
3rd: Thomas Wong and Yingshan Wang

📊 Poster presentations:
1st: Sokviseth Moeng
2nd: Heather Barreda
3rd: Javier Villela

1st Place Post-doc Oral: Tien-Hung Lan
1st Place Post-doc Poster: Tianlu Wang

🎉 Big News from IBT! 🎉 Congrats to Dr. Kenneth Ramos on being named a 2025 Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor—the highest faculty honor! Their transformative work drives innovation in biosciences & medicine.

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4aNNVXG

Alkek Building Reopening
I am pleased to inform you that the Alkek Building will resume normal operations on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025.

Happy Holidays from the Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences & Technology! 🎄✨ Thank you to our amazing community for a year of innovation and progress. Wishing you a season filled with joy, peace, and inspiration. Here's to an exciting year ahead! 🎉🌟

Check out Amy Gomez’s work, featured in the MSCI GSO 2025 Calendar! 🌟🔬

Her groundbreaking image is among the first to capture an S. epidermidis cell wall anchor protein (CWA) localizing and expressing on the bacterial surface. In the image, green shows the bacterial cell autofluorescence, while the red fluorescence highlights SesY, a CWA protein 🦠

Congratulations to our newest doctorates, Dr. Amy Gomez and Dr. Anh Vo! Your unwavering dedication and hard work have led you to this momentous achievement. We look forward to witnessing your continued success and contributions to advancing science and medicine 🎓🎊✨

Congratulations to 3rd-year student, Javier Villela, for receiving a travel grant to attend the 12th IMO Workshop on Toxicity in Tampa, FL! ✨🎉 The award was sponsored by the Moffitt Cancer Center, the Center for Excellence for Evolutionary Therapy, and the NCI-funded Cancer Systems Biology Consortium.
His team, which also includes postdoc Dr. Pujan Shrestha - both from Dr. Jason George's lab, won with their project, Personalizing Radiation Oncology to Mitigate Side Effects (PROMiSE), and received a $50,000 grant to kickstart the project!