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Alum Spotlight | UT San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Name: Nourhan Abdelfattah Degree/Program: PhD, Cancer Biology Track (formerly IMGP, now IBMS) Class Year: 2018 Current Role: Instructor, Houston Methodist Academic Institute   1. You were a student in Dr.... Read More →

Name: Mukund Bhandari Program: PhD in IBMS, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Molecular Medicine Graduation: 2024 Dissertation Title: “Benchmarking Mouse Contamination Removing Protocols in Patient-Derived Xenografts Genomic Profiling” Mentor Name: Siyuan Zheng, PhD Please tell me... Read More →

  My name is Joel A. Agosto-Peña. I was a student of the IBMS- Cancer Biology PhD program and I worked under the supervision of Dr. Feng-Chun Yang on my dissertation titled “Role of ASXL1 mutations in leukemogenesis and genomic integrity.” I am originally from... Read More →

Name: Peter Osha Program: MS, Immunology and Infection Graduation Year: 2023 What is your current profession? Medical Laboratory Technologist I What led you to choose UT Health San Antonio? I chose UT Health San Antonio because it offers a comprehensive and impactful environment... Read More →

  Name: Amber Asher Program: IBMS Neuroscience Discipline, Translational Science Certificate Graduation Year: 2023 What is your current profession? Postdoctoral research associate at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center What led you to choose UT Health San Antonio? I always... Read More →

Name: Katie Lillis Program: IBMS Neuroscience Discipline Graduation Year: 2023 What is your current profession? Medical Writer What led you to choose UT Health San Antonio? I was first drawn to the breadth of neuroscience research at UT Health San Antonio and its tight connection... Read More →

Afaf Saliba Jaafar grew up in a tiny village in Lebanon, where her dream of pursuing a career in science seemed, at first, a farfetched one. But with a series of small steps, and a chess scholarship, she found herself on the path to a PhD. Afaf Saliba Jaafar, Class of 2024,... Read More →

Translational Science Ph.D. graduate Lauren Cornell was selected by NASA to participate in a simulated Mars study. Beginning Oct. 1, 2021, four people will live and work for 45 days inside a unique, ground-based habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Designed to serve... Read More →