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Bacteria and pathogens: Determining friend from foe in soil and water

A teaspoon of soil can contain as many as 1 billion bacteria, but most of them are completely harmless, or even beneficial. That also means that if someone with nefarious intentions adds dangerous bacteria to the soil, it can be difficult to sort out the good from the bad. That’s why the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $14.2 million grant to a team led by professors at Texas A&M to develop a way to quickly detect which bacterial pathogens are present.
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Support grows for Health Science Center priorities

Overall in 2018, gifts to the Texas A&M University Health Science Center’s colleges totaled more than $14.4 million. This was a large increase over the slightly more than $4 million given in 2017, which itself was nearly twice the amount in 2016. Kirk Joseph, assistant vice president for development for the Health Science Center, attributes much of this growth to the Health Science Center’s focus on three priority areas—rural population health, military health and innovation through engineering
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International leader in precision medicine to join Texas A&M through Governor’s University Research Initiative

Kenneth Ramos, MD, PhD, PharmB, an accomplished physician-scientist and internationally recognized leader in genomics, precision medicine, environmental health and toxicology, will join Texas A&M University Health Science Center in March to lead the (IBT) in Houston and serve as assistant vice chancellor for health services at The Texas A&M University System.
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Texas A&M welcomes national center to improve rural health care

When rural hospitals close, it’s a loss that reverberates throughout the community and sometimes the region. People who experience a major injury or illness might suffer complications from the delay in treatment as they rush to the nearest health care facility miles away. Pregnant women have to travel long distances not only to deliver their babies, but also for their basic prenatal care. Patients with chronic conditions have difficulty maintaining their health. Anyone without reliable transport
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Grant funds much-needed women’s cancer screenings

For the last several years, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has funded initiatives to promote cancer screenings among underserved Texans while giving future nurses and physicians educational opportunities. One program using the CPRIT grant funds provides breast and cervical cancer screenings to women in the Brazos Valley. To study how well this program works, researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center surveyed the women receiving these services a
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Texas A&M College of Dentistry awarded Center of Excellence Grant

Texas A&M College of Dentistry in Dallas has been awarded a second five-year Center of Excellence grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers of Excellence program to advance diversity in faculty and students. This $3.5 million award is a continuation of the last Centers of Excellence grant the college received, which ran from July 2012 through June 2017. The grants, which are awarded through the Health Resources and Services Administration, are given based on six diffe
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Texas A&M College of Medicine faculty receives CPRIT grant

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) recently awarded a $864,971 grant to Carl Gregory, PhD, associate professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. His research proposal, “Targeting a Growth and Survival Pathway in Bone Tumor Cells,” was one of 48 new grants awarded totaling more than $93 million towards advancing the fight against cancer. Gregory’s work, which focuses broadly on bones, had previously focused on using mesenchymal stem cells to heal broken bones faste
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Texas A&M, Johns Hopkins receive $5.3 million NIH grant to study how lead exposure affects humans

When researchers try to uncover the cause of disease, they commonly start with two questions: Did a quirk in the patient’s genes open the door to illness, or did exposure to environmental factors play havoc with the patient’s health? Very often, both genes and the environment are at least partly to blame, and to provide the most effective treatment, health care providers need to know as much as possible about how they work together. With support from a $5.3 million National Institutes of Healt
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