M. Karen Newell-Rogers, Ph.D.
Professor
(254) 774-6000
(Email)
Dr. Newell-Rogers is the Raleigh R. White, Jr. Endowed Professor
of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine,
at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center and Scott and White
Hospital in Temple, Texas. Newell-Rogers is also the Director of
the newly formed Center for Cell Death and Differentiation at
TAMHSC/Scott and White Hospital. Newell-Rogers was formerly at the
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, as Scientific Director of
the CU Institute of Bioenergetics and Immunology and as the Clement
and Margaret Markert Endowed Professor of Biology.
She has authored or co-authored several dozen peer-reviewed papers
predominantly focused on immunology and cellular metabolism, and
she has over 30 issued or pending patents.
Education
- B.A. University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1973
- Ph.D. University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 1987
Awards
-
Million Dollar Club, UCCS Research Committee, September 2008, September 2009, (The Million Dollar Club is comprised of researchers who have brought in at least 1 million dollars in extramural funding)
-
Pinnacle of Invention Award, CU Systemwide Technology Transfer, 2007, 2008
-
Pinnacle of Invention Award, CU Systemwide Technology Transfer Award for 2005, 2006,
-
2007, 2008, 2009
-
2004 UCCS Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
-
Nominee, Outstanding Inventor, Technology Transfer Awards, CU System, Fall 2002
-
Nominee, Outstanding Inventor, Technology Transfer Awards, CU System, Fall 2003
-
Outstanding Inventor, CU Systemwide Technology Transfer Awards, November 2004
Post-doctoral Awards:
-
1987-1989 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award; Medical Research Council of Canada
- 1989-1992 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award; Leukemia Society of America
