Great to have Ian Dunn come to BCM Neurosurgery as the Ehni Lecturer this year. What an engaging workshop this morning. Ganesh Rao M.D.

Happy to share the news that Dr. Lisa Bouchier-Hayes Texas Children's & @BCMHouston received an NIH R01 grant! The funding will support her project titled, “Inflammatory Caspase Activation in Sickle Cell Disease.”

Congrats to Dr. Leonid Metelitsa
Texas Children's BCMHouston, who has been named a recipient of @BCMHouston's 2024 Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Awards! Great to see his contributions to #Cancer immunology & development of novel immunotherapies recognized.

Join us Friday, April 19th, from 11am-12pm in N315, Alkek building for the weekly #neuroscience seminar featuring Dr. Matthew McGinley from Baylor College of Medicine.
Seminar Title ‘Modulating Neuromodulators to Enhance Cognition’.

Congratulations to Dr. Casey McAtee for two distinctions! An invitation to join Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal's EdBoard & to serve on SIOP International's Programme for Advancing the Research Capacity Scientific Committee, which is bolstering evidence-based #pedonc in Sub-Saharan Africa. #GlobalHealth

Congrats, Dr. Caridad 'Cary' Martinez Texas Children's BCMHouston for being invited to talk at the 2024 Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC) Scientific Workshop in the Best Abstracts session! PIDTC is NIH-funded & advances research in rare diseases like #SCID

Today, as a part of the Texas Children's #Neurology Equity and Unity engagement initiative, Duncan NRI hosted a Brain Fair for underrepresented middle-school students to educate, empower, inspire curiosity & foster inclusivity. More: bit.ly/4cK4zIo #CommunityEngagement

During this #Autism AwarenessMonth , learn how patients with two MECP2 disorders present with different sensory changes: bit.ly/3PDyjwB #Autism AcceptanceMonth #Autism AcceptanceWeek Ariel Lyons-Warren (she/her) Texas Children's BCMHouston #Autism

The study shows that uncommon mutations in the YKT6 gene are responsible for novel neurological illness characterised by developmental delays.
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Congratulations, Dr. Xiaolong Jiang on your recent promotion!

Drs. H. Bellen et.al BCMHouston Texas Children's, Wendy Chung Boston Children's & Dr. Ganapati Columbia Medicine have found YKT6 variants as the cause of a new #neurological disorder w/risk of severe liver disease & liver #Cancer : bit.ly/4aiGqqF Genetics in Medicine

Congrats to Dr. Hsiao Tuan Chao Hsiao-Tuan Chao (赵孝端), MD PhD BCMHouston Texas Children's for being invited to the editorial board of the Annals of Neurology, a top journal in the field!

Congrats to Dr. Lisa Bomgaars Texas Children's BCMHouston, the new Vice Chair for American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology’s Quality and Safety Special Interest Group! In this role, she will advance global quality and safety initiatives for the care of #pediatric hematology/oncology #patients

Congrats to Dr. Philip Lupo Texas Children's BCMHouston for being invited to serve as a member of the @NICHD_NIHInitial Review Group’s (IRG) Developmental Biology Study Section (CHHD) — a role in which he will help guide and advance national #biomedical #research initiatives.

Congrats to Dr. Michael Taylor from Texas Children's BCMHouston, who served as this year’s prestigious Viking Lecturer where he presented three plenary lectures! The award was presented by Dr. Mats Ryttlefors, Head of Neuroscience Uppsala University

A study led by Ariel Lyons-Warren (she/her) & Drs. Suter & Pehlivan Texas Children's & BCMHouston find sensory changes are more severe in patients w/MECP2 duplication disorder than #Rett #syndrome patients. More: bit.ly/3PDyjwB #Autism #research

Congrats to Dr. Carl Allen Texas Children's for being named Vice Chair of Research @BCMHouston's Dept of Pediatrics! In this role, Dr. Allen will work with colleagues to optimize the health of children and young adults through research and innovation. #histiocytosis #lymphoma

Congratulations to Dr. Pavel Sumazin, director, Bioinformatics Core Laboratory Texas Children's & BCMHouston for receiving funding to study chemoresistant tumor subclones in Pediatric #Liver #Cancers .' Extramural Research

Congrats, Dr. Andras Heczey Texas Children's & BCMHouston for receiving a grant from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for a project titled, 'Synthetic gene expression regulator switches expressed in CAR-T cells to cure children with solid #tumors .' @Alexslemonade #Cancer

Congratulations, Kevin Jiang for receiving this prestigious award from NIH! Mingshan Xue BCMHouston Texas Children's BCM Department of Neuroscience