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Dr. Grace Lee Receives American Pharmacists Association Immunization Champion Award (Honorable Mention)

GSBS alumna Grace Lee, Pharm.D., Ph.D. was recognized as “Honorable Mention” for this year’s Immunization Champion Award from the American Pharmacists Association Foundation. Dr. Lee graduated in 2016 from the Translational Science Ph.D. Program. She currently...
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Shaimar Gonzalez Elected As Student Board Member at SACNAS

I am glad to inform that I was elected to be a Student Board Member at SACNAS (Society for Chicanos/Hispanics and Native American in Science). I want to thank the students at GSBS, IMSD and everyone for their support. As I mentioned in the last piece, being elected for this...
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Hannah Elam Publishes Paper On An FDA Approved Drug For Potential Use on PTSD and Comorbid Psychosis

Hannah Elam just published a first-author paper in Translational Psychiatry entitled “Orexin receptor antagonists reverse aberrant dopamine neuron activity and related behaviors in a rodent model of stress-induced psychosis.” Elam is a student in the Ph.D. in...
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Allie Vaiana Receives a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award

Allie Vaiana (Sharp) received a Society for Neuroscience Trainee Professional Development Award. According to the Society of Neuroscience website, the Trainee Professional Development Award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who demonstrate...
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Final Words: Camila Pacheco-Pereira, DDS, MBA, MSc, MS, PhD

1) Your name, program, dissertation title. Camila Pacheco-Pereira, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Title: Trends in Oral and Maxillofacial Career: A survey 2) Please tell me about yourself, why did you pick UT Health San Antonio, and your program. I am a wife to a devoted...
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Primer for F-Troop – Spring 2021

Primer for F-Troop is a 6-week, seminar-format, introductory workshop for pre- and postdoctoral trainees wanting to learn about the NIH and fellowship applications. Primer for F-Troop will prepare trainees for F-Troop, a hands-on writing workshop targeted to trainees who are...
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Bioinformatics Bootcamp: R for Biologists

The Bioinformatics Interest Group is proud to present Bioinformatics Bootcamp: R for Biologists. This free 12-week workshop will teach attendees R programming and data science skills for use in a biological research setting. The workshop will take place over Zoom from 5-6:30PM...
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Svatek Lab Publishes In Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer

Dr. Robert Svatek and his laboratory have a new publication in the Journal for Immunology of Cancer. Ji N, Mukherjee N, Reyes RM, Gelfond J, Javors M, Meeks JJ, McKonkey D, Shu Z-J, Ramamurthy C, Dennet R, Curiel TJ, Svatek RS. Rapamycin enhances BCG-specific γδ T cells during...
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