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38 t m c » p u l s e | f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 9 Credit: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13 courtesy photos; No. 4, © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud; No. 9, Rendering Perkins+Will; No. 12, MD Anderson 2 6 5 1 2 7 8 4 3 Field Notes 1 | HSIAO-TUAN CHAO, M.D., PH.D., instructor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and a child neurologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, has been awarded the NIH Director's Early Independence Award from the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 | DEBORAH GORDON, executive vice president, chief administrative officer and chief legal officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, was recognized by the Houston Business Journal as one of 2018's "Women Who Mean Business." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | During a two-day clinic, therapists at SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN – HOUSTON worked with patients on adaptive tricycles known as Amtrykes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 | JAMES P. ALLISON, PH.D., an immunolo- gist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10, 2018. Allison and Japanese immunologist Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D., shared the prize for their discovery of cancer therapies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 | BERT O'MALLEY, M.D., chancellor at Baylor College of Medicine, received the 2018 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 | JACQUELINE T. HECHT, PH.D., associate dean for research, director of the Center for Craniofacial Research and distinguished teaching professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Dentistry, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 | The department of epidemiology and population sciences at BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE welcomed a permanent art exhibit focused on the "dirty dozen" cancers at waist level or below: anal, bladder, cervical, colorectal, intestinal, ovarian, pancreatic, penile, prostate, testicular, uterine and vulvar. Local nonprofit Cancer Below the Belt teamed up with artist Corey Scott to create abstract portraits related to each cancer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 | The Houston Exponential Capital Summit held at the TMCx ACCELERATOR in December drew leading investment and entrepreneurship experts from around the country.