UT Health San Antonio | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

UT Health San Antonio researcher earns grant to study how the brain’s immune cells might actually contribute to Alzheimer’s

A researcher with the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio has received a two-year, $402,500 grant award from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to study how microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, paradoxically might...
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Peer mentoring program offers comfort, community for incoming graduate students

Ishita Tarnekar was a bit scared and overwhelmed as an international student starting her doctoral program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2024. But not for long. Thanks to the school’s Transition Peer Mentor Program for masters and doctoral students, she got her...
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