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The UT Health San Antonio SACNAS Chapter spoke on Sept. 7  at Texas Lutheran University (TLU), as part of the university’s seminar series. The seminar was intended to inform students about the various careers in biomedical research, introduce them to SACNAS and its mission... Read More →

Dr. Tim Raabe will be joining the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Health San Antonio as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. “I am eager and excited to take on the role of Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in GSBS and I look forward to working with everyone to... Read More →

Dr. Jim Allison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is connected to two UT institutions. He earned two degrees from UT Austin and is now the chair of immunology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Allison was awarded the prize along with Dr. Tasuku Honjo of Japan for... Read More →

Dr. Paolo Casali, Zachry Foundation Distinguished Professor, of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics (MIMG), was awarded a T32 Training Grant for his Graduate Research in Immunity Program (GRIP) from the National Institutes of Health. The five-year... Read More →

Congratulations to alum Dr. Chen Chen who has accepted a position as an assistant professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Jiangnan University in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. Chen, who was in the Cancer Biology discipline in Dr. James Freeman’s lab in... Read More →

  UT Health San Antonio hosted its first New Student Interprofessional Orientation on August 30 which brought together over 80 students from its six schools (School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, School of Public Health and... Read More →

Mother Nature has a way of hiding cures for diseases in plants and minerals, awaiting human discovery. This may be the case with thymol, a compound found in several plants, including thyme, oregano, rosemary and bay leaves. “Thymol is already known to have anti-microbial,... Read More →

Francisca Acosta didn’t always know Biomedical Engineering was for her. “Up until I went to college, I thought I would go into medicine and be a doctor. I grew up not knowing what a Ph.D. was and I definitely didn’t know about biomedical engineering,” said Acosta who was born in... Read More →