UT Health San Antonio | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Dayna Averitt, Assistant Professor of Biology at Texas Woman’s University

When did you first become interested in science? I enjoyed doing science projects as a kid, but it wasn’t until I was a Psychology Major at the University of Texas at Austin when I first experienced real research first-hand. My favorite college class was Physiological Psychology...
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Charlotte Anthony Receives 2019 Presidential Award

Charlotte Anthony, senior marketing specialist at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2019 Presidential Award. Established in 1985, the Presidential Awards recognize exemplary performance by individuals who consistently excel in their positions and...
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Shahida Flores Receives F31!

Shahida Flores, a student in the Cell Biology, Genetics & Molecular Medicine discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program has just received an individual National Research Service Award (F31 fellowship) funded by The National Institutes of Health/The...
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Bernard Arulanandam elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Bernard Arulanandam, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in bioscience at UTSA and the university’s interim vice president for research, economic development, and knowledge enterprise, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Dr. Arulanandam is also a...
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Molecular medicine professor Dr. Morita receives Rising STARs award

Masahiro Morita, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine in the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, has received a Rising STARs Award from the UT System. The award for early-career investigators comes with a $250,000 grant. Dr. Morita is also a member of...
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New therapies unveiled at San Antonio breast cancer conference

More than 7,000 physicians and researchers from around the world will converge on the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center Dec. 4-8 to attend the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Founded, owned and operated by UT Health San Antonio, SABCS began in 1977 as a one-day...
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Study: San Antonio’s health and bioscience industry generates $40.2 billion for local economy

San Antonio’s health care and bioscience industry accounted for $40.2 billion in sales of products and services and employed more than 1 in 6 of the metro area’s workers in 2017, according to a study released Tuesday by the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce....
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Rivard Report: Bioscience leaders hone strategy to put San Antonio on the research map

Four leaders of San Antonio’s major research institutions – Dr. Larry Schlesinger at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Taylor Eighmy at UTSA, Dr. William Henrich at UT Health San Antonio, and Adam Hamilton at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) – have teamed up to develop a...
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