program: Biology of Aging

Angie Olson Dorigatti, a student in the Biology of Aging discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program, won an outstanding scientific poster presentation award at the Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium in Austin on Jan 30. The title of the poster was... Read More →

Patricia Dahia, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, has been awarded a $1 million UT System Faculty STARs award to support her cancer genetics research. Dr. Dahia said the funding will be used to develop the infrastructure of a center for endocrine and hereditary tumors studies.... Read More →

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Catherine Cheng, Ph.D., was chosen to receive the Joe H. Ward Jr. and Bettie B. Ward Award for Excellence in the Study of the Biology of Aging as a Graduate Student. Selection for this award was based on the faculty committee’s review of research originality, creativity and its... Read More →

1. Your name, program, mentor name. Angela (Angie) Olson, IBMS- Biology of Aging, Dr. Veronica Galvan. 2. Tell me the story of when you realized you were passionate about science. While volunteering one summer at a sea turtle rescue in Costa Rica, I had a chance to rea... Read More →

Bess Frost, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disorders, and the Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy at UT Health San Antonio, is the recipient of the... Read More →

Angie Olson, a student in the Biology of Aging discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program, has been accepted into the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2020 Washington Fellows Program. The mission of the ASPET Washington Fellows... Read More →

83 students had citations in academic journals this spring semester, 50 were first author publications and 34 were second author publications! Our students published in journals such as Aging Cell, Cell Reports, Psychopharmacology, PLOS One, Issues Ment Health Nurs, and Methods... Read More →