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UT Health gets a $306,000 grant to study Ewing sarcoma

Dr. David Libich was quoted in an article by Kens 5 for his work on Ewing sarcoma. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. One of those cancers, Ewing sarcoma, is the second most common type of bone cancer in children with only 200 diagnosed each year in the U.S. Thanks to...
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Coveted National Cancer Institute award comes to Sung

UT Health San Antonio biochemist Patrick Sung, D.Phil., one of the world’s leading experts on BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer biology, has just received a highly competitive National Cancer Institute (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award. Dr. Sung is the first faculty member in UT Health...
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Stephanie Fedorchak Receives T32 Fellowship

Stephanie Fedorchak, a student in the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program was recently selected as a Neuroscience T32 fellow. She is currently in the lab of Dr. Carie Boychuk. Her co-mentor is Dr. Teppei Fujikawa. According to the National...
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Upcoming Social Events

Friday, September 27- How To Make Interesting Salads Have you struggled with making interesting salads? Chef Mona Milani will be coming to campus and leading a cooking demonstration.  Please email Charlotte at anthonyc@uthscsa.edu if you are interested in attending. Please also...
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UT Health San Antonio Interprofessional Orientation: The Patient is The Reason We Collaborate  

Incoming students shared a meal, played a game of Pictionary focused on roles/responsibilities of various health professionals, listened to faculty share stories about their respective professions’ scope of practice and how they impact patient care at the second annual new...
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Jason Hadley: Aging Research Is A Growing Field

If you asked Jason Hadley why he wanted to be an aging researcher, he would respond that aging is the key to stopping other diseases. “Aging is not this inevitable process, it’s like any other disease that has a program and you can alter that program,” he said. “It also has a lot...
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Allie Sharp Receives the 2019-2020 Predoctoral Research Training Award

Congratulations to Alexandra Sharp in Dr. David Morilak’s lab for receiving a 2019-2020 Pre-doctoral Research Training Award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas for her research on Mechanisms and Treatment of Cognitive Impairment Induced by Androgen...
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Rathipriya Viswanathan: International Club, Alzheimer’s Research, and The Super Resolution Microscope

Rathipriya Viswanathan is currently a Ph.D. student in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program in the Neuroscience discipline. “I was attracted to UT Health San Antonio because of the student friendly atmosphere. The other places I applied to seemed more rigid and not very...
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