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UT San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

From Bench to Breakthroughs: Nourhan Abdelfattah’s Journey in Cancer Research

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....
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T32 Feature: 2025-2026 Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience 

Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience Principle Investigator: Dr. David Morilak Funding Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke The GSBS would like to acknowledge and celebrate the students who were appointed to the Integrated Graduate...
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Congratulations to Federal FY 2024 F31, F30, and AHA Awardees

The GSBS would like to acknowledge and congratulate the prestigious FY 2024  Individual Kirschstein National Research Service Award recipients, as well as our American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship recipient.  These remarkable achievements are a testament to each...
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Grant on the Biology of Aging Trainees

T32 Feature: Training Grant on the Biology of Aging

Training Grant on the Biology of Aging Principle Investigator: Dr. Adam Salmon Funding Source: National Institute on Aging The aging population is rapidly growing and is expected to almost double and to comprise more than 20 percent of the U.S. population by the year 2050....
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Teniade Adetona, Karina Cantu, Kayla Lilly, Nicole Marion, Bria Moore, Gorana Puzovic

T32 Feature: Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience 

Integrated Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience  Principle Investigator: Dr. David Morilak Funding Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke The GSBS would like to acknowledge and celebrate the students who were appointed to the Integrated Graduate...
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T32 Feature: CTSA

CTSA T32 at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Principal Investigators: Drs. Yong-Hee Patricia Chun and Christopher Frei Funding Source: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences The GSBS would like to congratulate the Predoctoral and...
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Afaf Saliba Jaafar, PhD

PhD graduate follows her dream, one step at a time

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,...
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Shawn Flynn Selected As The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Highlighted Trainee Author For March 2022

Shawn Flynn, a student in the Physiology and Pharmacology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program, has been selected by The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics as the highlighted trainee author for March 2022 in recognition of his most...
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