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OK, I got your attention. But it is not what you think. It appears that NIH will soon be implementing policies to ensure that preclinical research, even in cells, includes plans to specifically examine differences between males and females. We asked one of our investigators with... Read More →

Drs. LaGrange and Stout both graduated from our Health Science Center, LaGrange from the Department of Physiology (Dr. Vernon S. Bishop) and Stout from Pharmacology, laboratory of Dr. Bill Clarke, and are now touching the lives of students through their teaching. It is because... Read More →

Are you interested in becoming a Principal Investigator? Do you want to know your chances of success? A recent study has developed a model that can predict the likelihood you will become a PI. Dare to give it a try? Read More →

Often in science, we ask, "What is a gap that needs to be addressed, and how can I fill it once I recognize it?" One enterprising UTHSCSA graduate student did just that when she realized that there were no Hispanic student organizations that encompassed all the UTHSCSA programs. Read More →

Currently Dr. Doug Frantz is a faculty member at UTSA but his journey has not been traditional. Dr. Frantz cultivated his research talents as a graduate student at Texas A&M followed by a post doctoral fellowship in Zurich, Switzerland. He then transitioned into a highly... Read More →

Fierce competition can sometimes promote sloppy, and even fabricated results. Such is the case in the field of stem cells, which has just been associated with the retraction of two "hot" papers in Nature. Read More →

Walking the grounds at the UT Health Science Center this summer are 63 high school students from school districts across San Antonio and the surrounding area from the Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy. The three year Voelcker Academy, now in its' 6th year and funded by the Max... Read More →

"I am building biotech companies in the same way that I build homes, starting with a strong foundation and from the bottom up." This is how Dr. Goldsmith described his process of working with entrepreneurs on a daily bases. Which, stems from his early experiences as a member of... Read More →