Dr. Rhome Hughes, instructional associate professor and director of career advising at Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed), has received the R. Kelly Hester Distinguished Teaching Award for Basic Science Education for 2024. Nominated by students, Hughes received the award at the College of Medicine’s Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony on Dec. 4, 2024. […]
Congratulations to M2 students Aamuktha Porika and Koyal Ansingkar for their remarkable achievements at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado and the International Society of Computational Biology (ISMB) 2024 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Their posters were accepted at both conferences! In Denver, Ansingkar’s original research, “Computational […]
Six years ago, Dr. Roderic Pettigrew came to Texas A&M University to start and lead a one-of-a-kind School of Engineering Medicine (ENMED). Today there is nowhere else in the world where students earn a medical degree and an engineering master’s degree in the same four years […]
Regents of The Texas A&M University System today approved spending $15 million to expand lab space on two levels of Texas A&M’s ENMED Tower adjacent to the Texas Medical Center in Houston. […]
If there’s one thing that everyone seems to hate about hospitals, it’s the gowns. The “physicianeers” from the EnMed program at Texas A&M University and Houston Methodist are hoping to change that. The gowns, which tie in the back and often leave patients feeling exposed, are designed so staff can put them on someone who is immobile or unconscious […]
Health care providers use MRI scanners to diagnose, stage, monitor, and research disease. But what if an MRI could also be used to detect threats early and help prevent severe consequences? A scanner that could see coronary or vascular diseases before they cause a heart attack or stroke, for example, or identify prostate cancer in its earliest stage before a biopsy is done could […]
