UTRGV announces $38 million gift from Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation
February 11, 2020
February 11, 2020
October 29, 2018
STDOI and UTRGV signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), India.
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May 14, 2018
The South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute (STDOI) at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine has received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, to study the environmental determinants of fatty liver disease in Mexican Americans.
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March 12, 2018
The Knapp Community Care Foundation (KCCF) has awarded The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley $1,989,727 over four years for the South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute (STDOI) at the UTRGV School of Medicine, to conduct genomic research related to diabetes among residents in the Mid-Valley.
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January 31, 2018
Dr. Joanne Curran, of the South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and the Department of Human Genetics at the UTRGV School of Medicine, has received a four-year, $2.36 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study the relationship between human lipid variation and cardiovascular disease.
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July 10, 2017
Marlane Rodriguez from RGVProud visited us at the STDOI to interview Dr John VandeBerg about his research which collaborates with the UTRGV Department of Biology to develop the laboratory opossum as a model to study Zika virus, as well as a model of cholesterol and fat metabolism, both with aiming toward exciting research that could potentially directly benefit the people of the Rio Grande Valley. Watch the full interview at the attached link.
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March 9, 2017
UTRGV has named Dr. Sarah Williams-Blangero (seated at center) the endowed chair of the H-E-B Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and Genomics for the South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute. Williams-Blangero, a genetics and infectious diseases expert, is director of STDOI. Standing, from left, are Dr. Havidán Rodríguez, UTRGV provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs; Winell Herron, group vice president of Public Affairs, Diversity & Environmental Affairs, HEB Grocery Company LP; Linda Tovar (HEB manager of Public Affairs, Border Region; and Dr. Kelly Scrivner-Cronin, UTRGV vice president for Advancement.
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January 27, 2017
A delegation of Texas legislators and their staff on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, visited the UTRGV Brownsville Campus as part of a special Valley tour organized by the RGV Partnership and UTRGV. Legislators visited with and heard updates from the leaders of cutting-edge initiatives like UTRGV’s South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute and STARGATE, and heard from education partners like Space X.
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August 22, 2016
Dr. Michael Mahaney, professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute (STDOI), has contributed to research of colleague Dr. Leslea Hlusko, associate professor of integrative biology at University of California Berkeley, in the identification of distinctive features of primate teeth that allow the researchers to track the evolution of apes and monkey ancestors.
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August 22, 2016
Dr. Harald Heinz Herbert Göring, a professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, has been appointed as a member of a review panel for the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review, which reviews applications for grant funding.
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June 22, 2016
Dr. Ravindranath “Ravi” Duggirala and a team of researchers are looking to their counterparts in India to help find answers to the Rio Grande Valley’s diabetes problems.
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November 16, 2015
A trip to Nepal for most people is a once-in-a-lifetime mountain climbing adventure. For Dr. Matthew Johnson, however, it is a twice-a-year excursion for his research into diabetes-related eye diseases.
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