http://www.biohouston.org BioHouston Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, BioHouston Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@biohouston.org Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:27:22 GMT Release http://www.biohouston.org/en/rel/425/ University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa honored three professors within the system — including one in San Antonio — with the 2010 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award. Dr. Marc Feldman, associate professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was one of three professors within the UT System to receive the award. He and Tom Milner, the Marion E. Forsman Centennial Professor in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, were recognized for their development of a novel approach applied to cardiovascular imaging. They developed a technology to help cardiologists provide better treatment to patients suffering from coronary artery disease. This approach, called optical coherence tomography (or OCT), can identify diseased regions of coronary arteries. Once these areas of the heart are identified, attending physicians can place stents in arteries or perform other treatments. ... http://www.biohouston.org/en/rel/425/ noemail@biohouston.org Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT