Kevin Kanda: From Nursing Student To Graduate Student

Kevin Kanda made a promise to his family to try to fight cancer. “I’ve lost some family and friends to cancer….my uncle died from lymphoma and I’ve known people with pancreatic and breast cancer as well,” he said. Initially Kanda thought nursing would be a good option for him. He...
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In Press: Adam Kosti Publishes First Author Paper

Adam Kosti published a first author paper in Molecular Cancer Research in the January issue. His paper is entitled “ELF4 Is a Target of miR-124 and Promotes Neuroblastoma Proliferation and Undifferentiated State.” What year are you? What program? I am a fifth year...
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Kristin A. Altwegg Receives AACR Associate Member Award at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2019

Kristin A. Altwegg, a CPRIT Predoctoral Fellow and third year IBMS Cancer Biology program doctoral candidate, received an American Association for Cancer Research Associate Member Award for her poster at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Below is her description of the...
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Research scientist Dr. Jean Jiang named AAAS Fellow

Jean X. Jiang, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and structural biology and holder of the Zachry Distinguished University Chair at UT Health San Antonio, is a newly elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS announced her selection Nov....
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Dr. Xiao-Dong Li’s recent paper in The Journal of Immunology was selected as a “Top Read”

Dr. Xiao-Dong Li’s recent paper in The Journal of Immunology entitled “Immune Sensing of Aeroallergen-Associated Double-Stranded RNA Triggers an IFN Response and Modulates Type 2 Lung Inflammation” was selected as a “Top Read” by the journal editors and reviewers, a new feature...
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Ph.D. Student presents at the RNA Institute’s 6th Annual RNA Symposium on “The Language of RNA in Disease and Development”

Congratulations to one of our IBMS Ph.D. students, Pooja Yadav (Cancer Biology Discipline) for her platform presentation at the recent RNA Institute’s 6th Annual RNA Symposium on “The Language of RNA in Disease and Development” held at University at Albany (State University of...
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Joint Research Collaboration expedites launch of zebrafish embryos to space

Kristina Andrijauskaite, a Ph.D. candidate in our Translational Science program at UT Health San Antonio has been working on a space related project. Project McXIMUS, which stands for Microgravity characterization eXperiment in Microgravity Universal Spacelab, is the name of the...
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In Press: The Latest Journal Publications From Students (Spring 2019)

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...
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