News in this week’s Inside UTMB column: Drs. Kathleen Vincent, Richard Pyles and Massoud Motamedi are part of a research collaboration that received a $20 million grant to develop an intravaginal ring capable of delivering powerful antiretroviral drugs to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted HIV in women; The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Kenneth Ottenbacher, director of the Division of Rehabilitation Science, $600,000 to study readmission and disability outcomes related to post-acute hospital care; The Sealy Center for Vaccine Development is seeking healthy adult volunteers 65 and older to participate in a clinical trial of a new bird flu vaccine; The pediatrics department has launched its annual toy and book drive, now through Friday. Toys and proceeds will benefit UTMB Children’s Hospital, Maternal-Child HIV program and outpatient pediatric clinics, as well as the Rainbow Connection, an organization that supports children with cancer — bring new and unwrapped toys to Room 3.300 in Research Building 6; A holiday blood drive is under way through Jan. 10. Donors may give blood in Galveston from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, in Room 5.212 of John Sealy Annex. Donations also will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in League City at the UTMB Multispecialty Center at Victory Lakes Town Center, 2660 Gulf Freeway South, Suite 4