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We are excited to officially welcome Anna Marks, GSBS Medical Physics PhD student, to the research team!
Congratulations to Allan John Barcena for being recognized as one of the 5 students, trainees for exemplary research in the third quarter FY25 at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Congratulations to Amanda Nowacki for winning Best Design and Graphics for her presentation, "Hemodynamics and Stenosis Classification of Arteriovenous Fistulas" at the 2025 Image Guided Cancer Therapy (IGCT) Research Program Summer Student Showcase!
Congratulations to Lucas Tirado for winning 1st place in the Resarch Oral Presentation at the Biotechnology Research High School Student Symposium at Baylor College of Medicine on August 9, 2025.
Congratulations to Allan John R. Barcena for receiving the 2025 Research Grant sponsored by the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology!
Congratulations to Dominic Karl M. Bolinas for winning the Dr. Noel Juban Outstanding Research Publication Award for his paper ¡°Mesenchymal Stem Cells Loaded in Injectable Alginate Hydrogels Promote Liver Growth and Attenuate Liver Fibrosis in Cirrhotic Rats¡± in Gels!
Congratulations to Dominic Karl M. Bolinas, Allan John R. Barcena, Archana Mishra, and Marvin R. Bernardino for publishing their paper entitled ¡°Mesenchymal Stem Cells Loaded in Injectable Alginate Hydrogels Promote Liver Growth and Attenuate Liver Fibrosis in Cirrhotic Rats¡± in Gels!
Congratulations to Archana Mishra, Erin Marie D. San Valentin, Allan John R. Barcena, Dominic Karl M. Bolinas, and Marvin R. Bernardino for publishing their paper entitled ¡°Antibody-Targeted Bismuth Gadolinium Nanoconjugate for Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma¡± in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
Congratulations to Allan John R. Barcena and Marvin R. Bernardino for publishing their paper entitled ¡°Bismuth-infused perivascular wrap facilitates delivery of mesenchymal stem cells and attenuation of neointimal hyperplasia in rat arteriovenous fistulas¡± in Biomaterials Advances!
Congratulations to Benjamin Martin for graduating from Baylor College of Medicine and matching in Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at Baylor College of Medicine.Read more news
Congratulations to Carleigh Klusman for graduating from Baylor College of Medicine and matching in an IR residency at NYU.
Congratulations to Erin Marie D. San Valentin for successfully defending her M.S. thesis entitled "Biocompatibility assessment of novel tungsten nanoparticle and polymer blend-infused resorbable inferior vena cava filters."
Congratulations to Raniv Rojo for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Evaluation of treatment response following combined irreversible electroporation and Radium-223 in vitro and in murine models of prostate cancer bone metastasis."
Congratulations to Tyler Owens, Vincent Lin, and Isias Workeneh for presenting at the 2024 Society for Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting held at Salt Lake City, Utah last March!
Congratulations to Erin Marie D. San Valentin, Jossana A. Damasco and Marvin R. Bernardino for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology!
Congratulations to Carleigh Klusman, Benjamin Martin, Joy Vanessa D. Perez, Allan John R. Barcena, Marvin R. Bernardino, Erin Marie D. San Valentin and Jossana A. Damasco for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in Advanced Fiber Materials!
Congratulations to Allan John R. Barcena, Joy Vanessa D. Perez, Jossana A. Damasco, Marvin R. Bernardino, Erin Marie D. San Valentin, Carleigh Klusman and Benjamin Martin for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in International Journal of Molecular Sciences!
Congratulations to Allan John R. Barcena, Joy Vanessa D. Perez, Jossana A. Damasco, Marvin R. Bernardino, Erin Marie D. San Valentin and Carleigh Klusman for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in Advanced Healthcare Materials!
Congratulations to Tyler Owens for winning 1st place in the 2023 First Year Medical Student Program Poster/Oral Presentation Awards!
Congratulations to Vincent Lin, high school summer student, for winning 2nd place in the 2023 Summer Experience Poster Competition - High School Category and Teen's Choice Award for Best Poster!
Congratulations to Drs. Melancon, Gunther, and Shannon for receiving a $1.5M grant from NCI on the Medical Students Summer in Oncology at Anderson Research (Med Students SOAR) Program (R25 CA265800-01A1).
Congratulations to Carleigh Klusman and Benjamin Martin for having their abstracts accepted at the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions 2023 this July 2023 in Boston.
Congratulations to Allan John R. Barcena and Erin Marie D. San Valentin for receiving the Research Scientist Award from the SIR Foundation! This award recognizes the accomplishments of scientists and engineers at all levels of training in Interventional Radiology. The award will be presented at the SIR 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
Congratulations to Sarah Honegger for having a Featured Abstract at the SIR 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, AZ!
Congratulations to Allan John R. Barcena, Erin Marie D. San Valentin, and Sarah Honegger for being selected to present their work as Oral Presentations at the SIR 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
Congratulations to Erin Marie D. San Valentin, Allan John R. Barcena, Carleigh Klusman, and Benjamin Martin for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology!
Congratulations to Jossana A. Damasco for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in Talanta!
Congratulations to Allan Barcena, Joy Perez, Olivia Liu, and Amy Mu for publishing their paper entitled ¡°Localized perivascular therapeutic approaches to inhibit venous neointimal hyperplasia in arteriovenous fistula access for hemodialysis use¡± in Biomolecules!
Congratulations to Sarah Honegger for placing 3rd in the 2022 MD Anderson Summer Experience Poster Competition!
Congratulations to Jossana A. Damasco and Joy Vanessa D. Perez for publishing their paper entitled ¡°¡± in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering!