Research News

UHCOP Ph.D. students have earned American Society of Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) travel awards as well as invitations to deliver oral and poster presentations of their research at the ASPET annual meeting during the virtual Experimental Biology 2021 Meeting April 27-30.

Noor Abdulkareem A Novel Role of ADGRF1 (GPR110) in Promoting Cellular Quiescence and Chemoresistance in Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-positive Breast Cancer

Top Stories

April 15, 2026

Delta Delta Claims Top Southwest Chapter Honors

The University of Houston College of Pharmacy Delta Delta Chapter of the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity secured its second consecutive — and its eighth since 2015 — Chapter of the Year Award while three of its members were elected to executive positions at the organization’s Southwest Province Spring Assembly March 28 in Houston.

Student

April 10, 2026

Rebeca Pelayo Carvajal: Improving Care Through Language

Pharm.D. student Rebeca Pelayo Carvajal is helping close critical language gaps in patient care. Through Spanish-language counseling, leadership across multiple student organizations and a passion for improving outcomes in Hispanic communities, she is using pharmacy as a powerful tool for advocacy, access and impact.

February 24, 2026

Ying Xu Receives Prestigious AHA Fellowship to Combat Heart Failure

For Ying Xu, a Ph.D. candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences at UHCOP, cardiovascular research is both scientific and personal. Inspired by her family’s history of heart disease and hypertension, Xu studies the molecular drivers of cardiac dysfunction. With support from a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, Xu is investigating how disrupted signaling inside heart muscle cells contributes to heart failure.

Research