program: Integrated Biomedical Sciences Programs

Research underway at UT Health San Antonio could prevent the progression of aggressive prostate cancer. Pratap Kumar, Ph.D., and Darpan Patel, Ph.D., were interviewed about their study comparing exercise to a cork tree bark extract. They found that both interventions work nearly... Read More →

Congratulations to one of our Cellular and Structural Biology graduate program alumni, Nourhan Abdelfattah, Ph.D. who has just received a two-year Horizon Award (total costs, ~$250,000) from the Department of Defense FY19 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program! Nour is currently... Read More →

Samantha Yee, a third year Ph.D. student in Dr. April Risinger’s lab in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program in the Physiology & Pharmacology discipline, will be the 2020-2021 Student Government Association (SGA) president. The SGA is the recognized forum of... Read More →

1) Please tell me about yourself. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology here at UT Health San Antonio. I got my Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Japan, and did postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center. I’ve been in... Read More →

Keeping up with congress can be a challenge, even when things seem to move at a snail’s pace. The slow pace, combined with all the small text filled with jargon, can really be a turn-off for a lot of people. As a result, most people can’t really be bothered to know, or care,... Read More →

Congrats to two students in the dual degree (M.D./Ph.D.) South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program who received travel awards to present at the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI this May. MSTP student, Ryan Reyes (GS3, left), will... Read More →

UT Health San Antonio is committed to training tomorrow’s talent, who are relentlessly pursuing discoveries that translate into life-changing, life-saving technologies. Critical to these breakthroughs are our 8 state of the art core lab facilities that create the pathway for... Read More →

Dr. Amelie Ramirez, the Chair of Population and Health Sciences and Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement for the Mays Cancer Center within UT Health San Antonio spoke to Kens5 for the article “Why clinical trials about cancer are so important in San... Read More →