UT Health San Antonio | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Final Words: Allison Garrison & Her Passion for Pharmacology

Your name, program, dissertation title. Allison Garrison, Integrated Biomedical Sciences Program (IBMS-PhD),  Physiology/Pharmacology discipline, The role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in modulating neuroinflammation Please tell me about yourself, why did you pick UT...
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Carlos Rivera Places third at The Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science 10th Annual Frontiers of Translational Science Research Day

Congratulations to Carlos Rivera, a student in the Molecular Immunology and Microbiology discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program, for placing third at The Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science 10th Annual Frontiers of Translational Science Research...
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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Sealy Hambright, Scientist at the Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine at the Steadman Clinic

Dr. Sealy Hambright graduated from UT Health San Antonio in 2017 from the Biology of Aging track. He currently works as a Scientist at the Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine at the Steadman Clinic, part of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. When did you first become...
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Dr. Tiffani Houston: Medicine, Dance, and the Move to Miami

Dr. Tiffani Houston, a graduate of the South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program, will be walking the stage on May 18 as one of the four M.D./Ph.D. students set to graduate this year. After graduation, she will be moving to Miami to pursue a combined Internal Medicine and...
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Trinity Tigers Bring 19th Annual Brain Bowl Trophy Back to San Antonio

Everyone was at the edge of their seats on the evening of April 16th, as the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) comets and the Trinity University tigers went into the first tiebreaker of the 19thAnnual Brain Bowl since its commencement in 1998. Both teams entered the...
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Greehey cancer researcher receives UT System’s Rising STARs award

David Libich, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and structural biology in the Long School of Medicine and faculty member of UT Health’s Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, has received a Rising STARs Award from the UT System. The award for early-career...
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Alumnus Dr. Suleman Hussain Receives AACR-AstraZeneca Stimulating Therapeutic Advances through Research Training Grant

1) What have you been up to since graduation? I am a research fellow in the Dept. of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. Prior to this, I was a graduate student at UT Health San Antonio, working with Dr. Addanki P. Kumar on understanding the...
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Conversations with Alumni Series: Dr. Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde Speaks About Life as a Military Scientist

Dr. Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde spoke to a group of graduate students at April’s Graduate Student Association meeting as the final speaker of the Conversations with Alumni Conversation series. Dr. Hinojosa-Laborde grew up in San Antonio and went to St. Mary’s University. “I realized...
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