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UT Tyler Research Conference to Feature the Latest in COVID-19 Research

April 6, 2021

Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Senior Director of Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.566.7303

The University of Texas at Tyler announced today that the 2021 East Texas Research Conference (ETRC) will be a virtual presentation of research on COVID, its implications and developing therapeutics.

Coronavirus Pandemic, Emerging Therapeutics, Health Implications and Challenges will be 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Thursday, April 15, and will feature presentations from invited speakers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler as well as UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, UT Rio Grande Valley and other institutions in the UT System. 

“COVID-19 remains one of the great healthcare challenges of our time,” said Steven Idell, MD, PhD, UT Tyler senior vice president for research. “This ETRC provides a forum to hear from a panel of internationally recognized experts about the medical and behavioral consequences of COVID-19 infection, current treatment options, how the vaccinations work and new strategies being developed by UT Tyler investigators to ensure better outcomes.”

The sessions will include a live component in which attendees may pose questions to the presenters.

Conference registration is open, and attendance is free. To register, visit https://etrc.uttyler.edu/.

UT Tyler will host a follow-up ETRC conference in fall 2021 featuring UT Tyler faculty and students about COVID-19 and other academic research impacting the lives of East Texans.

For more information, contact Kouider Mokhtari, PhD, UT Tyler associate vice president for research, kmokhtari@uttyler.edu or 903.565.5561.

With a mission to improve educational and healthcare outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. Through its alignment with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with innovative medical research, medical education and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.