Faculty, Staff and Student Publications
Open-access journal articles of faculty, students and staff from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston. Some of the focus areas include Clinical and Cognitive Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health Informatics, and Translational Biomedical Informatics.
Submissions from 2025
Retraction of Activation of Rac1 by Src-Dependent Phosphorylation of Dock180Y1811 Mediates PDGFRα-Stimulated Glioma Tumorigenesis in Mice and Humans, Xinghua Lu, Tao Cheng, Jia-Jean Yiin, et al.
Understanding Dental Hygienists’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding HPV Vaccination, Michael Mackert
Wnt-Directed CXCL12-Expressing Apical Papilla Progenitor Cells Drive Tooth Root Formation, Hiroaki Manabe, Angel Ka Yan Chu, Ramandeep Kaur, et al.
Exploring Factors Affecting the Adoption and Use of Digital Health Technologies Among Older Adults With Cancer: A Qualitative Study, Milisa Manojlovich, Yang Gong, and Yun Jiang
Designing a Narrative-Based Video Game for Adolescents Coping with a Parent's Cancer, Carlos Martinez, Jane Hamilton, Muhammad Tuan Amith, et al.
Enhancing Theory-Driven Design and Evaluation of Patient-Facing Technologies, Heidi Mason and Yun Jiang
A Pioneering Artificial Intelligence Tool To Predict Treatment Outcomes in Ovarian Cancer via Diagnostic Laparoscopy, Xiaotian Ma, Yu-Chun Hsu, Amma Asare, et al.
Adoptively Transferred Tumor-Specific Il-9-Producing Cytotoxic CD8+ T Cells Activate Host CD4+ T Cells to Control Tumors With Antigen Loss, Xingzhe Ma, Miao Xian, Qiang Wang, et al.
Gene Expression Changes in Human Cerebral Arteries Following Hemoglobin Exposure: Implications for Vascular Responses in SAH, Devin W McBride, Kumar T Peeyush, and Spiros L Blackburn
Unleashing the Power of Multiomics: Unraveling the Molecular Landscape of Peripheral Neuropathy, Elvisa Mehinovic, Simone Thomas, Ahmet Höke, et al.
Design and Development of an Intervention to Improve the Quality and Safety of Pediatric Dental Sedation: A Human-Centered Design Approach, Urvi Mehta, Janelle Urata, Alfa-Ibrahim Yansane, et al.
Reusable Generic Clinical Decision Support System Module for Immunization Recommendations in Resource-Constraint Settings, Hua Min, Yang Gong, Dean F Sittig, et al.
Auricular Point Acupressure for Older Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Natalia E Morone, Ronald Glick, Elizabeth A Schlenk, et al.
Deep Phenotyping of Obesity: Electronic Health Record-Based Temporal Modeling Study, Sameer Murali and Hongfang Liu
Towards Data-Driven Science Literacy: Extracting Psycholinguistic Markers in Vaping-Related Online Peer Interactions, Sahiti Myneni
Student Expectations and Outcomes in Virtual vs In-Person Interprofessional Simulations: A Qualitative Analysis, Samuel E Neher and Jennifer L Swails
Constructing A Conversation-First Dialogue Model for Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Counseling for HPV Vaccination for Young Adults, Ana C Neumann, Daniel Rhee, Cui Tao, et al.
Simultaneous Targeting of Tumor Cells and Tumor-Associated Macrophages To Reprogram Glioblastoma Using Trypsinized Extracellular Vesicles Carrying Tumor Suppressive MicroRNA, Grace H Nguyen, MinHye Noh, Jin Muk Kang, et al.
Estrogen-Related Receptor Alpha Promotes Skeletal Muscle Regeneration and Mitigates Muscular Dystrophy, Thi Thu Hao Nguyen, Ya Xiang Huang, Svitlana Poliakova, et al.
Classification of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder With Comorbid Traits and Deep Learning Algorithms, Vishwajit L Nimgaonkar, Daniel R Weinberger, Shizhong Han, et al.
Distributed Cross-Learning for Equitable Federated Models – Privacy-Preserving Prediction on Data From Five California Hospitals, Lucila Ohno-Machado
Video-Based Intervention To Reduce Treatment and Outcome Disparities in Adults Living With Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack (Virtual): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial, Munachi Okpala, Chigozirim Izeogu, Mengxi Wang, et al.
Optimized Genomic Editing of a Common Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutation in Patient-Derived Muscle Cells and a New Humanized Mouse Model, Efrain Sanchez- Ortiz, John R McAnally, Damir Alzhanov, et al.
Evaluating Generalizability of Oncology Trial Results to Real-World Patients Using Machine Learning-Based Trial Emulations, Ravi B Parikh
IRF6 Regulates Adherens Junction Proteins and Inflammatory Cytokines in Salivary Acinar Cells and Its Expression Is Elevated in Sjӧgren’s Syndrome, Vi Pham, Antonio Hernandes Chaves Neto, Julia Zheng, et al.