Wasmuth named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and co-director of the cryo-EM facility at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has been selected by the Howard Hughes...
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Candidacy Ceremony Means More Than a New White Coat

On Friday, September 30, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences honored 52 students from across Biomedical Engineering, Nursing Science, Health Sciences, Translational Science, Integrated Biomedical Sciences, Medical Physics, Radiological Sciences, and the South Texas Medical...
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Spotlight on GSBS Presidential Ambassador: Erik Marchant

Since 1988, the Presidential Ambassador Scholars program recognizes outstanding students from each of the six schools who embody the University’s mission through their leadership, service, and academic excellence.  Selected by their deans, the ambassadors each receive a $5,000...
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Purpose Reimagined: Alum and cancer survivor is using research to pay it forward

Every child has aspirations of what they want to be when they grow up, whether it be a firefighter, police officer or astronaut. For Derek Rodriguez ’23, that dream was to be a medical doctor. And when at the age of eight he was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer in...
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GSBS Alumnus, John Michael Briceño, Is Bringing Warmth and Hope to the Andes

John Michael Briceño, a 2013 graduate of UT Health San Antonio’s Master’s in Radiological Sciences program, has spent the past decade building a career as a medical physicist in radiation oncology, a field that is deeply rooted in service, compassion, and improving lives. Beyond...
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Congratulations to Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD, on his Rising UT STAR Award!

Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD, from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) Health Science Center, received a $150,000 University of Texas System Rising STARs (Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention) award to fuel research into the mechanisms underlying...
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Congratulations to Laurence Maeyens for winning the AGE Poster Pitch Award!

Written By: Gina Jenkins Laurence Maeyens, a PhD student in Biology of Aging, won the Poster Pitch Award, along with a cash prize, at the 2025 American Aging Association meeting in Anchorage, Alaska in July. His winning poster, titled “Timing of castration modulates its...
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Volunteer Extraordinaire and Student Leader, Sara Gaiser, Creates New Service Organization

Have you seen the Lab RATS at UT Health? No, not the mice in research laboratories. These Lab RATS are something entirely different. Lab Researchers with Ambition to Serve (Lab RATS) is a UT Health student organization that focuses on volunteer service around San Antonio and...
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