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.
Rice students showcase bold engineering solutions at annual OEDK event
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.
An internal seed funding initiative will support 12 projects exploring brain health research.
Rice doctoral student uses mechanics to map how breastfeeding works in real time
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.
Rice highlights ‘transformative’ cancer innovation, venture pipeline during CPRIT visit
Rice foregrounded its cancer research portfolio during a visit from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas senior officials.
RBL LLC launches Duracyte, advancing living pharmacy platform in Houston’s growing biotech hub
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.
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.
Senior Spotlight 2026: For this aspiring physician, computer science is ‘empowering’ asset
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.
Solving the oxygen problem in cell-based drug delivery
Rice researchers and collaborators have now successfully integrated solutions to several persistent challenges to implantable drug factories into a single device.
Scalable platform sheds light on how cancer spreads
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.
Rice students design realistic training model to improve uterine cancer biopsy access worldwide
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?
Rice psychologists named APS Fellows for advancing research with real-world impact
Two Rice researchers recently named fellows of the Association for Psychological Science, one of the field’s leading international organizations.
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.
Brains in society: De Lange Conference explores how neuroscience is shaping the future
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.
From climate storytelling to AI innovation: Rice researchers take on global challenges at SXSW
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.
