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Come see the University of Texas Medical Branch’s brand-new Jennie Sealy Hospital on the Galveston Campus during an open house from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Visitors can tour selected floors and see some patient rooms with beautiful views of the Gulf of Mexico or Galveston Bay. Free parking will be available at the UTMB Plaza garage located at Mechanic and Sixth streets.

Health Policy Dialogues continue

The Medical Branch’s Alexander Vo, vice president for telemedicine and health services technology, will speak at noon March 2 about “UTMB’s Emerging Health Innovations.”
The presentation will be in the Levin Hall dining room on the Galveston campus. Contact Becky Trout, rltrout@utmb.edu, for more information.

Lefeber Winter lectures continues today

The Sealy Center on Aging Lefeber Winter Series continues today at 5 p.m. with a presentation by Cassio Turra, associate professor of demography at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. His presentation “Fifty Years of Elderly Empowerment in Brazil” is at 5 p.m. in Levin Hall on the Galveston campus.

Braunsdorf honored by UT System

The medical branch’s police officer Wesley Braunsdorf is the UT System Police Featured Officer of the Month for February. Braunsdorf is a canine officer and is usually seen with his four-legged partner, Noey, around the medical branch and in the community. They have participated in apprehending high-risk felons, checked out suspicious packages and bomb threats as well as help to track violent offender suspects. Braunsdorf began his career at the medical branch as a guard in 2001 and was selected to attend the UT Police Academy in 2003.

Prakash awarded $2 million grant

Satya Prakash, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, was awarded more than $2 million from the National Cancer Institute to conduct studies that aim to gain a better understanding of the chemotherapeutic agent araC in order to determine ways to increase its effectiveness. This chemotherapy is used in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, which progresses rapidly and has a high rate of relapse.
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