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• 2026
• 05/14/26 NSM Celebrates 909 Graduates at Spring 2026 Commencement
• 2025
• 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Fall 2025 Commencement
• 08/28/25 Mary Adesina Awarded Prestigious AAUW International Fellowship for Cancer Research
• 01/10/25 Weiyi Peng Receives NSM Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
• 2024
• 10/21/24 Personalized Cancer Treatment: UH Research Team Awarded R21 Grant to Improve Safety of Immunotherapy
• 03/27/24 UH Research Team Awarded Pilot Program Grant from HEALTH-RCMI
• 03/25/24 Preventing Breast Cancer in Post-Partum Women
• 2023
• 12/16/23 Biology Ph.D. Graduate Ritu Bohat Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 11/02/23 Researcher Tackles Mysterious Z-RNA Structure and Its Potential Connection to Diseases
• 09/26/23 Weiyi Peng on Research Team Developing Sense-and-Respond Cancer Implant Technology
• 07/10/23 Biology Major Hadil Elldakli Wins Third Place in Poster Competition at International Meeting
• 06/14/23 Making Immunotherapy Safer
• 06/12/23 Study Identifies Potential Treatment Target for Prostate Cancer Resistant to Hormone Therapy
• 2022
• 07/06/22 Researchers Develop Next-Gen Cancer Therapy
• 04/12/22 CNRCS Researcher Develops New Method for Detecting Tumor Cells
• 03/21/22 CNRCS Researchers Aid in Development of Cancer Eradicating Immunotherapy in Mice
• 2021
• 11/03/21 Identifying Therapeutic Targets for Aggressive HR-positive Breast Cancer
• 07/27/21 Biology and Biochemistry Alum Wins Inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 05/05/21 Postdoctoral Researcher Jiakai Hou Wins AACR’s Scholar-in-Training Award
• 04/12/21 CNRCS Researchers Find Connection Between Progesterone Receptor and Cervical Cancer
• 2020
• 11/10/20 UH Researcher Uses Immunotherapy Expertise to Fight Cancer and Parkinson’s Disease
• 07/14/20 COVID-19 Effort: HP Donates D300e BioPrinter to Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
• 06/11/20 Showing Promise: Fighting COVID-19
• 2019
• 11/12/19 Contraceptive Drug Shows Promise for Preventing and Regressing Cervical Cancer
• 08/28/19 The Role of a Single Molecule in Obesity
• 2018
• 10/09/18 Finding Therapeutic Targets to Prevent Atherosclerosis
• 04/12/18 A Focus on Disease: The Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
• 03/14/18 Researchers Link Defects in a Nuclear Receptor in the Brain to Autism Spectrum Disorders
• 03/07/18 Sumoylation: Protein Modifications in Cancer Progression
• 03/01/18 Estrogen Suspected, Examined as Cause of Cervical Cancer
• 2017
• 05/01/17 Four CNRCS Faculty Receive Awards from Owens Medical Research Foundation
• 2016
• 09/06/16 Frigo Awarded $792K Grant to Support Prostate Cancer Research
• 04/26/16 Zhang Awarded $3.5 Million in NIH Grants to Develop Cancer Therapy
• 03/14/16 Cancer-causing Gene Triggered by Alcohol May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
• 2015
• 10/27/15 Umetani Wins Bronze in the BeHEARD 2015 Science Challenge
• 09/29/15 New Prostate Cancer Treatments Could Target Metabolism
• 08/24/15 Promising Target for New Drugs Found in Pancreatic Cancer Cells
• 03/04/15 UH Researchers Find Link Between Flame Retardants and Obesity
• 2014
• 08/08/14 Center Researchers Target Alternative Sugar Metabolism to Treat Prostate Cancer
• 2013
• 11/22/13 Classic Signaling Pathway Holds the Key to Prostate Cancer Progression
• 09/03/13 CNRCS Researcher Awarded $1.56 Million Grant from NIH for Colon Cancer Study
• 06/17/13 In Memoriam: Stefan Andersson, Ph.D.
• 2012
• 12/20/12 New Role Identified for Estrogen Receptor-Beta in Breast Cancer
• 12/19/12 Prostate Cancer Cell Growth Linked to Androgens and Autophagy
• 10/15/12 Center Researchers Report Latest Prostate Cancer Research
• 08/08/12 Continued Development of Cancer Virotherapy Applications
• 08/01/12 Researchers Investigate Nuclear Receptors in Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson Disease
• 06/22/12 CNRCS Investigators Awarded Additional Funding from NIH, DOD
• 05/18/12 Williams Lab Publishes Recent Cancer Research
• 05/16/12 Center Researchers Explore Nuclear Receptors in Anxiety Disorders
• 04/27/12 CNRCS Confers Inaugural Ph.D.
• 04/19/12 Center Researchers Identify New Cause of Diabetes Insipidus
• 04/03/12 CNRCS Director Appointed to Board of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
• 02/14/12 Estrogen Receptor Beta Identified as Potential Drug Target for Emotional Disorders
• 02/09/12 CNRCS Study of Uric Acid Stones Published in National Academy Journal
• 01/11/12 CNRCS Reports Latest Prostate Cancer Research to National Academy of Sciences
• 2011
• 12/07/11 CNRCS Professor Featured in Journal of Biological Chemistry
• 11/04/11 CNRCS to Receive Advanced Imaging Technology for Cancer Research
• 10/20/11 New Drug Strategies for Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis Examined at UH
• 09/27/11 Karolinska Institutet's Grand Silver Medal Awarded to Dr. Jan-Ake Gustafsson
• 09/27/11 CNRCS Researchers Explain Hormonal Role in Glucose and Fat Metabolism
• 08/29/11 CNRCS Researchers Explain Nuclear Receptors for Nature Reviews Cancer
• 07/15/11 CNRCS Researchers Explore Gene Expression as Breast Cancer Treatment
• 06/13/11 Jan-Ake Gustafsson Awarded Honorary Doctorate in Finland
• 04/06/11 Immunotherapy Expert Shaun Zhang Cited in Bloomberg
• 03/30/11 CNRCS Researcher Awarded $5.2 Million Grant for Prostate Cancer Study
• 01/12/11 Nuclear Receptors Reveal Possible Interventions for Cancer, Obesity
• 2009
• 09/30/09 Fernstrom Prize Awarded to UH Hormone Researcher
• 09/01/09 Houston Chronicle: UH scientist tackles toxins, Houston's heat
• 06/30/09 Links Between Stem Cells and Breast Cancer