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Over 300 people tuned in for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Health San Antonio’s first ever virtual candidacy ceremony on Aug. 21 which celebrated the achievements of graduate students who have passed their qualifying exam. The graduate scho... Read More →

The Bioinformatics Interest Group (BIG) club is now offering “Bioinformatics Bootcamp,” a workshop series in which participants will learn coding and computational biology skills from experienced UTHSA students and faculty. The Fall 2020 series, “Programming Fundamentals and... Read More →

This July, we partnered with Labroots.com to launch our first ever Science Writing Contest. The contest was open to all graduate students at UT Health San Antonio. Special congratulations to Erica Osta (1st place winner) and Ayon Bhattacharya (2nd place winner). Here are the... Read More →

All Fall 2020 Lecture courses will be held online. Through December, all lecture courses will be held virtually. Students should contact their course instructors regarding concerns around access or accommodations. Faculty who want to schedule in-person exams must submit requests... Read More →

We hear daily that what we eat affects our health and the importance of eating “healthy.” Eating healthy is different from person to person as diets are complex but what we eat may actually help in the management of a disease. Various diets have been trending recently such... Read More →

Defense Arm of the Microbial Immune System Being native to the bacterial immune system, no one imagined the immense potential of the CRISPR Cas system of the microbes. Limitations in the technology made it difficult for us to explore these proteins of tiny organisms. With the... Read More →

Vaccines are the fundamental reason behind eradicating some of the deadliest diseases in the history: The journey of vaccines and immunizations started in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a country doctor from Berkeley, England who performed the world’s first vaccination by taking pus from... Read More →

Are you living up to your healthiest potential? This might be the key to surviving the pandemic. It is no secret that those with the highest risk of hospitalization, intubation, and death from COVID-19 are those with chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic... Read More →