From Discovery to Diagnosis: How UT San Antonio Researchers Are Transforming Endometriosis Care

In November 2024, Forbes Magazine featured Hera Biotech in an article titled “No More Invasive Tests: Hera Biotech’s Endometriosis Solution,” spotlighting a team working to change how one of the most misunderstood women’s health issues. Among the company’s founders were two of UT...
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GSBS Students Showcase the Future of Biotech at Nucleate Texas Demo Day

On Friday, May 30, Nucleate Texas hosted Nucleate Demo Day at the Buena Vista Theater on the UTSA Downtown Campus. Nucleate is a student-led nonprofit organization focused on helping academic trainees become founders and translate world-class research into impactful life science...
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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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Spotlight on GSBS Presidential Ambassador: Erik Marchant

Since 1988, the Presidential Ambassador Scholars program recognizes outstanding students from each of the UT Health schools who embody the University’s mission through their leadership, service, and academic excellence.  Selected by their deans from nominated candidates, the...
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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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Volunteer Extraordinaire and Student Leader, Sara Gaiser, Creates New Service Organization

Have you seen the Lab RATS at UT Health? No, not the rodents 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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A Look Back at My Time at UT Health San Antonio

Written by Jacob Essif I started my career at UT Health San Antonio as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Daruka Mahadevan, after the lab relocated from the University of Arizona to the well-regarded UT Health San Antonio. I joined UT Health in January of 2020, and right as I...
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2025 GSBS Hooding Speakers Announced: Caitlyn Fastenau and Dr. Jodie Gray

The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is pleased to announce the 2025 Hooding Ceremony Speakers. The student speaker will be Caitlyn Fastenau, an IBMS Student in the Biology of Aging Discipline. Dr. Jodie Gray, a 2020 graduate of the Radiological Sciences PhD Program, will...
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