MeRT, a PTSD treatment guided by each patient's own EEG, is FDA cleared. Dr. Kenneth Ramos led the trial with Wave Neuroscience, including military participants. ibt.tamu.edu/stories/wave-ne…
A "jumping gene" in a blood sample may help profile lung cancer. Dr. Abeer Hassanin in Dr. Kenneth Ramos's lab found exosomal LINE-1 tracked stage, tumor size and smoking history. ibt.tamu.edu/stories/abeer-h…
AACR Cancer Discovery cites Dr. Yubin Zhou (Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology) in a Nobel-week feature on optogenetics' reach into cancer, including light-controlled CAR T work (Nat Nanotechnol 2021).
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Dr. Yubin Zhou at Texas A&M Health’s Institute of Biosciences and Technology on Heliox: caffeine-activated tools to control engineered cells and gene-editing systems for safer, more controllable therapies.
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IBT researchers, led by Dr. Suzanne Tomlinson-Mathis, are featured in Drug Discovery Today on Texas’ IDDD Core Network: 750+ projects, 60+ startups, and a statewide model for academic drug discovery.
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Houston or Bryan: join a one-visit Alzheimer’s study at Texas A&M Health IBT (ages 60–85).
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One visit at Texas A&M Health IBT: consent, questions, memory tests, small blood sample. Ages 60–85. Voluntary.
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Texas A&M Health IBT is inviting adults 60–85 to a one-visit Alzheimer’s research study (memory tests + small blood sample). Voluntary. No cost.
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Dr. Thomas A. Kent of Texas A&M Health’s IBT has been named to the 2026 Texas Super Doctors list and reports Legacy Hall of Fame status after 15 consecutive years—a physician-scientist in Houston’s Texas Medical Center. ibt.tamu.edu/stories/thomas-…
NPAW highlights Dr. Andrés D. Chamorro Parejo (Ramos lab) at Texas A&M Health’s IBT—bioinformatics, precision medicine, chromatin/epigenetics, and single-cell RNA-seq research on lung cancer. ibt.tamu.edu/stories/andres-… #NPAW2026 #PostdocAppreciationWeek #TexasAM
NPAW at Texas A&M Health introduces PDA co-presidents Dr. Andrés D. Chamorro Parejo and Dr. Vicente Rubio, continuing Chetna Dureja and Rudra Banerjee’s leadership.
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IBT investigators, with Wave Neuroscience, led the trial supporting FDA clearance of MeRT for PTSD. PI: Dr. Kenneth S. Ramos, executive director of the Institute of Biosciences and Technology.
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NVIDIA’s new case study on Texas A&M University’s VISION supercomputer features Dr. Reid T. Powell at IBT in Houston: 10.4 million molecular simulations in about a week for computational drug discovery.
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Year 1 of Dr. Yubin Zhou’s NIGMS R35 begins Sep 1: molecular control of calcium signaling at membrane contact sites, at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology in Houston.
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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). #CancerResearch #IBT
Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology is proud to announce Dr. Jiang Chang as the 2025 Thomas Smith Memorial Lecturer by the American Heart Association. Established 1997 to honor Dr. Thomas Smith. Congrats, Dr. Chang! bit.ly/3JZ4V4u






















