Tag: Inventors

National Academy of Inventors names TTUHSC’s Liang a senior member

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.8 million Americans contractantibiotic-resistant bacterial infections each year, and approximately 35,000 of those infections lead to death.To help improve those outcomes, Hongjun “Henry” Liang, Ph.D., a professor for the Texas Tech UniversityHealth Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Physiology and MolecularBiophysics […]

Disney Imagineer becomes 2nd Disney employee in history to be inducted in the Inventors Hall of Fame

Lanny Smoot is set to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and is the second Disney employee, after Walt Disney himself, to receive the honor. The Walt Disney Company announced that Smoot, along with “his fellow Class of 2024 inductees,” will be honored officially in Washington, D.C., on May 9. Smoot told […]