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35 t m c p u l s e | j u ly 2 02 0 t m c p u l s e | j u ly 2 02 0 9 | TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY will build a half-billion-dollar health sciences complex to expand its College Station, Texas-based brand in the Texas Medical Center. This complex will augment the current renovation of the Texas A&M University Engineering Medicine (EnMed) building at Holcombe Blvd. and Main St. with two new towers sched- uled to include nearly 600 student housing units, medical offices and retail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 | Scott Greenberg, M.D., holds up a Micra AV before his first implantation of the device at CHI ST. LUKE'S HEALTH – THE WOODLANDS HOSPITAL, the first hospital in Greater Houston to adopt this new tech- nology to treat patients with atrioventricular block, a type of heart block that interrupts the impulse transmissions between the cham- bers of the heart. Micra AV is considered the world's smallest pacemaker and is able to treat a broader group of patients than tradi- tional pacemakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 | ALAN J. GARBER, M.D., PH.D., passed away on April 9, 2020. Garber joined Baylor College of Medicine in 1974 as an assistant professor and investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and, since 1982, served as a professor in the departments of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, and molecular and cellular biology. He also served as chief of endocrinology, dia- betes and metabolism at Methodist Hospital from 1993 to 2004. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | CLIONA ROONEY, PH.D., professor of pediatrics – hematology and oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, was honored as one of four 2020 Women Leaders in Science by BioHouston, a local organization seeking to position the city as a leader in life science and biotechnology commercialization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 | More than 1,000 TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER scientists, students, researchers and health care professionals gathered on June 9, 2020 for a walking vigil to support the black community and the eradication of police violence. As they walked a 30-minute loop around the Texas Medical Center, a private funeral for George Floyd—the Houston-raised black man whose May 25 death at the knee of a white police officer ignited global outrage— was being held at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston. Do you have TMC photos you would like to share with Pulse? Submit high-resolution images to: news@tmc.edu 11 13 9 12 10