Rice University/Texas Medical Center Collaborative Programs and Centers

RESEARCH

Natural Sciences and Engineering

BIOENGINEERING

The Biology, Clinical Performance, Acceptability, and Cost-Effectiveness of Fluorescence and Reflectance Spectroscopy and Quantitative Cytology and Histo-Pathology for Cervical Neoplasia (NIH P01)

Collaborators: Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice), Dennis Cox (Rice), Michele Follen (MDACC), and others (British Columbia Cancer Agency)

Optical Systems for in vivo Molecular Imaging (NIH BRP)

Collaborators: Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Rice), Michele Follen (MDACC), Konstantin Sokolov (MDACC), Renata Pasqualini (MDACC), Ann Gillenwater (MDACC), Karen Adler-Storthz (UTHSC-H) and others (UT Austin, U Arizona, British Columbia Cancer Agency)

Tissue Engineering of Hematopoietic Bone (NIH BRP)

Collaborators: Karen Hirschi (BCM), Jennifer West (Rice), Antonios Mikos (Rice), Alan Davis (BCM), Elizabeth Davis (BCM), Mary Dickinson (BCM), Margaret Goodell (BCM), Eva Sevick-Muraca (BCM), H. David Shine (BCM), and Thomas Zwaka (BCM)

Leukocyte Trafficking: From Flowing Blood to Tissue (NIH BRP)

Collaborators: Jennifer West (Rice), Wayne Smith (BCM), Michele Mariscalco (BCM), Alan Burns (BCM), Rolando Rumbaut (BCM), Zhijie Li (BCM), and other (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Neuro-Vascular Regeneration (NIH P20–NIBIB Quantum Project)

Collaborators: Karen Hirschi (BCM), Jennifer West (Rice), Mary Dickinson (BCM), Thomas Zwaka (BCM), Malcolm Brenner (BCM), and others (National Institute for Medical Research in London, and King’s College in London)

Seamless Integration of Detection and Therapy for Breast Cancer Using Targeted Engineered Nanoparticles (DOD)

Collaborators: Naomi Halas (Rice), Rebekah Drezek (Rice), Jennifer West (Rice), Renata Pasqualini (MDACC)

Nanotechnology-Enabled Intraoperative Breast Tumor Margin Assessment (DOD BCRP)

Collaborators: Rebekah Drezek (Rice), Kuan Yu (MDACC), Lavinia Middleton (MDACC)

VWF Cleavage, Aggregation, and Thrombotic Microangiopathy (NIH P01)

Collaborators: Joel Moake (Rice), Jing-fei Dong (BCM), Miguel Cruz (BCM)

VWF Domain Structure in Von Willebrand Disease Subtypes (MR Gibson Foundation)

Collaborators: Joel Moake (Rice), Matthew Auton (Rice), Miguel Cruz (BCM)

Protein Packing Defects as functional markers and drug targets (NIH R01)

Collaborators: Ariel Fernandez (Rice), Gabriel Lopez-Berestein (MDACC), Anil Sood (MDACC), William Bornmann (MDACC)

Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disc Regeneration (NIH R01)

Collaborators: Kyriacos Athanasiou (Rice), Margaret French (Rice), Antonios Mikos (Rice), Mark Wong (UTHSC-H)

Promotion of Alveolar Socket Healing with Biopolymers (NIH R01)

Collaborators: Antonios Mikos (Rice), Mark Wong (UTHSC-H)

Fatty Acid Synthase: Structure, Dynamics, and Function (NIH R01)

Collaborators: Jianpeng Ma (Rice), Florante Quiocho (BCM), Wah Chiu (BCM), Salih Wakil (BCM)

Optical Stimulation of the Cochlea for the Treatment of Hearing Loss (Clayton Foundation)

Collaborators: Robert Raphael (Rice), John Oghalai (BCM), and others (UC–Riverside)

Molecular Interactions of the Carboxy Terminus of Prestin (NIH R21)

Collaborators: Robert Raphael (Rice), Fred Pereira (BCM)

Tissue Engineering Analysis of PG-dependent Biomechanics (NIH R03)

Collaborators: K. Jane Grande-Allen (Rice), Magnus Hook (Texas A&M HSC)

CHEMISTRY

Novel Nanotechnologies for the Treatment of Cancer

Collaborators: Lon Wilson (Rice), Adrian Lee (BCM)

Fullerene-peptide Cancer Therapy

Collaborators: Lon Wilson (Rice), Bert O’Malley (BCM)

Design and Development of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Addressing Healthcare Concerns of Space Flight

Collaborators: James Tour (Rice), Jodie Conyer (UTHSC-H)

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

FIBR: The Evolution of Biological Social Systems

Collaborators: David Queller (Rice), Gad Shaulsky (BCM), Adam Kuspa (BCM), Chad Shaw (BCM)

STATISTICS

Sequence and Haplotypes for Analysis of Cancer Genes

Collaborators: Marek Kimmel (Rice), David Nelson (BCM)

Lung Cancer Model: Risk, Progression, and Intervention

Collaborators: Marek Kimmel (Rice), Olga Gorlova (MDACC)

 

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Image Processing Methods used to Improve Quality of 2D Intracardiac Echocardiographic Images

Collaborators: John Clark (Rice), Dirar Khoury (BCM)

 

Social Sciences, Humanities, Music, Architecture

James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and Texas Institute for Society and Health

Founded in 1999 by the president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, the Texas Institute for Society and Health is a five-institution collaboration to improve population health largely centered on the impact of societal factors on population health. The activities of the Texas Institute are in four broad categories: research, public policy initiatives, community action projects, and training of scientists, all for the purpose of improving population health.

Collaborators: Rice, UTHSC-H, BCM, MDACC,UH

James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and Health Economics Program

The program’s mission is to study the ways in which economic incentives and government policies influence the quality and costs of healthcare.

Collaborators: Rice, BCM

 

Social Sciences, Humanities, Music

PSYCHOLOGY

ADHD Symptoms in Autism: Cognition, Behavior, Treatment

Collaborators: David Lane (Rice), Deborah Pearson (UTHSC-H)

Health Care and the Arts

Health Care and the Arts is an annual lecture series that discusses the links between health and the arts.

Collaborators: Rice, UTHSC-H, UH