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As a UT Health San Antonio Ph.D. candidate, under the mentorship of Dr. Madesh Muniswamy, I am studying mitochondrial biology and the many pathways involved in physiologic (healthy) and pathophysiologic (unhealthy) states. Mitochondria are double-membraned organelles that have a... Read More →

1) Your name, program, mentor name. Name: Amber Ather Program: Endodontics Certificate with M.S. in Dental Science Mentor name: Dr. Anibal Diogenes 2) Tell me the story of when you realized you were passionate about science. I was exposed to science at an early age. As my entire... Read More →

1) Your name, program, mentor name. Allison Crawford, RN, PhD Candidate in our Ph.D. in Nursing Science program, UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing, Dr. Lisa Cleveland, RN, PhD, PNP-BC, IBCL, APRN, FAAN. 2) Tell me the story of when you realized you were passionate about... Read More →

Cassidy Daw, a student in the Molecular Immunology & Microbiology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program, has received two grants. She is in the lab of Dr. Madesh Muniswamy where she is working on applying basic discoveries about mitochondrial biology to... Read More →

Petra Jans Pederson won Top Graduate Student Poster at this year’s Virtual Research Day 2020 hosted by the Long School of Medicine. Pederson is a 5th  year dual degree student (M.D./Ph.D.) in the South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program, and a GS3 in the IBMS program in the... Read More →

I recently co-authored a chapter entitled “Cell and matrix dynamics in branching Morphogenesis”for the fifth edition of Principles of Tissue Engineering, edited by Robert Lanza, Robert Langer, Joseph P. Vacanti, and Anthony Atala. The chapter focuses on branching morphogenesis, a... Read More →

The Pipette Gazette recently interviewed Daniel Chupp, a student in the Molecular Immunology & Microbiology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program about his new publication, “B cell Sirt1 deacetylates histone and non-histone proteins for epigenetic... Read More →

Meilinn Tram, a second year D.D.S./Ph.D. student has been named Student Government Association (SGA) representative of the year. Tram has been part of SGA since starting the D.D.S./Ph.D. program in 2018. “I am humbled by being chosen for this award and being recognized for... Read More →