program: Neuroscience

The STEM Scholars Program, a new interprofessional community outreach program at UT Health San Antonio provides a platform for dental, graduate, health professions, medical and nursing students to interact and collaboratively design and present health-related topics at local K-12... Read More →

The 2019 Crush Foundation TBI Symposium Program will feature keynote lectures, free paper sessions, oral presentations and posters. The Symposium key dates are as follows: Call for Abstracts Now open! Call for Abstract Deadline December 1, 2019 Author Notifications December 9,... Read More →

Liliana Espinoza, graduate student in the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program,  was awarded the 2019 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) to attend the Society for Neuroscience conference this October! In Dr. Carie Boychuk’s lab, she is... Read More →

  Neuroscience researcher Hannah Elam recently received the prestigious T32 fellowship which will fund her project to look at the mechanisms that underlie psychosis and ways to treat it. Elam works in the lab of Dr. Daniel Lodge who recently received a grant from the Department... Read More →

Neuroscience researcher Hema Manogna Gudlavalleti is passionate about working on neurodegenerative research. After college, she found a job in Los Angeles for a start-up pharmaceutical company where she was working on Alzheimer’s disease research. “The company invited Alzheimer’s... Read More →

Katie Lillis loves the tight sense of community that has formed within the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program. “We all work together during the day and do activities outside of lab as a group,” she said. “It feels very homey here and... Read More →

Denisse Paredes, a fourth-year graduate student in the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program has been chosen to receive the UT System Jess Hay Chancellor’s Graduate Student Research Fellowship. The UT System Jess Hay Chancellor’s Graduate... 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 →