Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
For Daniel Martinez, the road to medicine didn’t begin in a classroom. It started in the low-income neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Lewisville, Texas, in the emergency rooms where his mother worked nights cleaning up after patients, and in physicians’ homes, where he and his family cleaned houses to make ends meet.
For Paulina Horton, science isn’t just a career, it’s an adventure. When talking about her research in immunology, she lights up and describes it with a kind of giddy excitement often reserved for action films.
“It makes me feel like Indiana Jones with a pipette,” Horton said with a grin.
The molecular mechanism behind why heart attacks can vary in severity depending on the time of day has been uncovered by researchers at UTHealth Houston, potentially paving the way for innovative treatments that align with the natural circadian rhythm.
Shubhra Ghosh under went radial keratotomy more than 30 years ago, and over time, her vision began to deteriorate. With the help of Stephanie Handal, OD, optometrist with UTHealth Houston, Ghosh said her vision is dramatically improved, and she is seeing clearly again for the first time in decades.
