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Houston Methodist Rice Digital Health Institute hosts inaugural high-impact industry collaboration day

April 22, 2026

The Houston Methodist Rice Digital Health Institute hosted its inaugural HMRDHI Industry Translation Day, marking a significant milestone in the institute’s mission to accelerate the discovery, development and clinical deployment of digital health innovations. 

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Rice students showcase bold engineering solutions at annual OEDK event

April 22, 2026

From lifesaving medical devices to sustainable energy systems and robotics, Rice students packed the Ion with ingenuity April 16 for the Huff OEDK Engineering Design Showcase.

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Rice seed grants aim to speed dementia, brain health research ahead of new state funding opportunities

April 22, 2026

An internal seed funding initiative will support 12 projects exploring brain health research.

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Rice doctoral student uses mechanics to map how breastfeeding works in real time

April 21, 2026

As researchers work to close long-standing gaps in women’s health, a Rice doctoral student is using principles of mechanics to shed light on one of the most fundamental aspects of early motherhood: breastfeeding.

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Rice highlights ‘transformative’ cancer innovation, venture pipeline during CPRIT visit

April 20, 2026

Rice foregrounded its cancer research portfolio during a visit from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas senior officials.

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RBL LLC launches Duracyte, advancing living pharmacy platform in Houston’s growing biotech hub

April 15, 2026

RBL LLC, a pioneering biotech venture creation studio dedicated to rapidly building companies based on breakthrough medical technologies, today announced the launch of Duracyte, a biotechnology company commercializing a pioneering class of implantable “biohybrid pharmacy” devices designed to produce therapeutic proteins continuously inside the human body.

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Texas Medical Center and Rice collaboration funds second round of new projects to advance cancer detection technologies

April 13, 2026

The Center for Innovation and Translation of Point-of-Care Technologies for Expanded Cancer Care Access, a Rice-led collaboration of partners from three continents and based in the Texas Medical Center, has announced its second round of subawardees.

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Senior Spotlight 2026: For this aspiring physician, computer science is ‘empowering’ asset

April 6, 2026

Rice senior Pankti Mehta is channeling her drive to improve how people access and experience health care by combining computer science with hands-on clinical insight.

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Solving the oxygen problem in cell-based drug delivery

March 27, 2026

Rice researchers and collaborators have now successfully integrated solutions to several persistent challenges to implantable drug factories into a single device.

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Scalable platform sheds light on how cancer spreads

March 26, 2026

A new platform makes it easier to study metastasis and sheds light on how cancer clusters survive in the bloodstream when spreading from a primary tumor to other parts of the body.

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Rice students design realistic training model to improve uterine cancer biopsy access worldwide

March 24, 2026

For an interdisciplinary team of Rice undergraduates, improving global women’s health started with a pressing question: What does it take to make an essential cancer diagnostic procedure available worldwide?

Research at Rice is advancing how people interact with technology and understand the brain, from improving human-AI systems like automated driving to uncovering the cognitive processes behind literacy.

Rice psychologists named APS Fellows for advancing research with real-world impact

March 24, 2026

Two Rice researchers recently named fellows of the Association for Psychological Science, one of the field’s leading international organizations.

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Rice students partner with city of Houston to tackle policy barriers for lifesaving mobile stroke units

March 23, 2026

In collaboration with the Houston Health Department, the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies recently hosted a two-part Mobile Stroke Unit Advocacy Hack-a-thon, inviting students to help solve one of the most pressing challenges facing this innovative technology.

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Brains in society: De Lange Conference explores how neuroscience is shaping the future

March 23, 2026

Neuroscientists, artists, educators and policymakers gathered at Rice for the De Lange Conference to explore questions at the center of everyday life: how the brain works and what that means for society.

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From climate storytelling to AI innovation: Rice researchers take on global challenges at SXSW

March 18, 2026

At this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Rice researchers explored how to close that gap, whether by rethinking how climate change is communicated or by accelerating scientific discovery through artificial intelligence.

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