UT Health San Antonio | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Rivard Report: A Body of Knowledge in School’s Real and Virtual Anatomy Labs

Dr. Omid Rahimi, UT Health San Antonio associate professor of cell systems and anatomy, was featured in The Rivard Report ‘s article, “Bexar’s Eye: A Body of Knowledge in School’s Real and Virtual Anatomy Labs.” BodyViz renders data from magnetic resonance...
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Congratulations to the 2020 Presidential Awards Winners!

Dear UT Health San Antonio faculty, staff, students and residents, Every day, our employees work tirelessly to advance our missions of education, research, clinical care and community service. Many deserving faculty and staff were nominated to be honored with a Presidential Award...
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Texas Expected To Face 71K+ Nursing Shortage By 2030

Texas is facing a major shortage of nurses, Cynthia O’Neal, Ph.D., RN, and Sara Gill, Ph.D., RN, IBCLC, FAAN, faculty in our Nursing Science Ph.D. program spoke with Texas Public Radio about the issue. To see the full program, click here.
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Anand Kornepati Receives an F30 Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute

Anand Kornepati, a GS2 student in the South Texas Medical Scientist Training program, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellowship (F30) from the National Cancer Institute. The F30...
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WISDOM Invites Women Seminar Speakers To Breakfast Club

The Women in Science, Development, Outreach, Mentoring (WISDOM) student club recently invited Dr. Donna Wilcock, professor at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky to their monthly breakfast club. “We get a lot of female...
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Kristin A. Altwegg Receives AACR Associate Member Award at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2019

Kristin A. Altwegg, a CPRIT Predoctoral Fellow and third year IBMS Cancer Biology program doctoral candidate, received an American Association for Cancer Research Associate Member Award for her poster at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Below is her description of the...
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Researchers Projected 142% Rise in Latino Cancer by 2030

Amelie Ramirez, Dr.P.H., co-editor of the book said, “Our book, Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos, takes an unprecedented look at Latino cancer from many disciplines to encourage the kind of collaboration among diverse professionals that we need to move the field...
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Lily Espinoza Awarded American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship

Lily Espinoza, a student in the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program, has been awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral fellowship. The American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship is a training grant which supports students on...
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