Six Texas Tech Health El Paso faculty members have been recognized as among the world’s top 2% of scientists, according to the Stanford-Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List. The researchers’ fields of focus include diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, which disproportionately affect the Borderplex area.
Recognized Scientists
The recognized scientists include Deborah Joy Clegg, vice president for research and professor of internal medicine, who has spent 30 years researching how metabolism findings from studies of men often don’t apply to women. Her research contributed to a federal mandate requiring sex to be included as a biological variable in National Institutes of Health-funded studies.
Other recognized scientists include Biff F. Palmer, professor of internal medicine and medical education; Debabrata Mukherjee, chair of internal medicine and chief of cardiovascular medicine; Attilio Orazi, chair of pathology; Subodh Kumar, who received a grant to study Alzheimer’s disease in Hispanic patients; and the late Richard W. McCallum, who founded and built the university’s internal medicine department.
The university’s Francis Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will also mentor its first biomedical doctoral students in Far West Texas later this fall, with five students concentrating in diabetes, cancer, infectious diseases, and neurological conditions.
Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
