As the need for new physician-scientists grows, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Medical Student Summer Research Program (MSSRP) provides opportunities to build foundational skills. New research on the program shows promising results for a research-ready physician workforce.

A new study by a team of McGill researchers could help explain why people who have quit smoking remain at elevated risk of lung disease long after their last cigarette.

Their paper, published in Translational Research, provides one of the most detailed pictures to date of how quitting smoking affects the human lung at the cellular level.