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It all started with an email in mid-November.  I looked at this email for days trying to decide what to do. Needing guidance, I brought it up at my weekly meeting with my primary mentor, Dr. Ratna Vadlamudi. We it discussed at length and  I made the decision to “go for it.” The... Read More →

Your name, program, mentor name.  Name: Kristin A. Altwegg, M.S. Program: Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program, Cancer Biology Discipline Mentor: Ratna K. Vadlamudi, Ph.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Tell me the story of when you realized you were passionate... Read More →

Ashlie Glassner, a student in the Nursing Science Ph.D. program, published a first author paper entitled “Fighting Stigma by Engaging Persons Living with Dementia in Research” in Issues in Mental Health Nursing. The paper is about how the stigma around dementia has affected the... Read More →

Kristin Ann Altwegg, a fourth-year student in the Cancer Biology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program at UT Health San Antonio, was selected to participate in the AACR Early Career Hill Day on Feb. 25. Altwegg is an affiliate member of the Mays Cancer... Read More →

Kristin Ann Altwegg, a fourth-year student in the Cancer Biology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program at UT Health San Antonio, received 3rd place for the predoctoral poster presentation category at the Virtual Mays Cancer Center annual symposium.... Read More →

Shawn Flynn, a student in the Physiology and Pharmacology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program has just published a first-author paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The paper, “Discriminative stimulus effects of carfentanil in rats discriminating... Read More →

I am glad to inform that I was elected to be a Student Board Member at SACNAS (Society for Chicanos/Hispanics and Native American in Science). I want to thank the students at GSBS, IMSD and everyone for their support. As I mentioned in the last piece, being elected for this... Read More →

Hannah Elam just published a first-author paper in Translational Psychiatry entitled “Orexin receptor antagonists reverse aberrant dopamine neuron activity and related behaviors in a rodent model of stress-induced psychosis.” Elam is a student in the Ph.D. in... Read More →