UT Health San Antonio | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Jasmine De Mange: A Look at Healthcare From All Angles

Jasmine De Mange has seen healthcare from all angles—first she started work in healthcare administration as a patient service specialist in a Cardiology department, next she started a nursing assistant program, and now she’s in a research-based master’s program. Up next,...
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Di Wang Uses Deep Learning To Diagnose Diseases

Di Wang first became interested in deep learning through a seminar at the Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research of NYU Langone Health. “The seminar is about deep learning application in medical imaging field. Everybody was talking about it so I wanted to take a...
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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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Dr. Rafael Veraza was featured in TechBriefs for his work on a self-contained system called ULiSSES™

Dr. Rafael Veraza was featured in TechBriefs for his work on a self-contained system called ULiSSES™. Dr. Veraza, an alumnus of the Translational Science Ph.D. Program is now a senior scientist at Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc. He works with Tom DeBrooke, CEO & President...
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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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A protein found in bone could play a role in osteoporosis, San Antonio researcher says

Dr. Xiaodu Wang, a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is studying a possible cause of osteoporosis fractures at the molecular level, work that is being conducted under a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of...
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