program: Integrated Biomedical Sciences Programs

“If you want to achieve something great for yourself, you have to put in hard work” said Mustafa Mithaiwala, a student in the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program. Mithaiwala became interested in medical pharmacology while as a student at... Read More →

Adrian Beckmann, received the Joe and Bettie Ward Award based on his excellent academic performance, character, and leadership. The award is presented to a graduate student in recognition of outstanding achievement in aging research.  Beckmann is currently working under Dr. Bess... Read More →

On a chilly Monday evening with temperatures in single digits, the graduate student international club (GSIC) hosted their second event called the International Potluck since the group’s conception. The event was attended by over 20 people from the graduate school and saw... Read More →

UT Health San Antonio pharmacology researchers Dr. Daniel Lodge and Dr. Jennifer Donegan discuss schizophrenia symptoms and stigma, along with research to understand the mental disorder. UT Health San Antonio is hosting a free public symposium about schizophrenia on Friday, Nov.... Read More →

Born and raised in Taiwan, Amy Wu trained as a physical therapist, but later found out that scientific research is her true passion. “In physical therapy, there was a lot of emphasis on making assessments on patients and coming up with a treatment plan, a lot of what and how, but... Read More →

Congratulations to one of our students in the Cancer Biology (CB) track, Ming Gao, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation recently! Ming will be starting postdoctoral training shortly in the lab of James Brugarolas, M.D., Ph.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern... Read More →

Congratulations to alum Dr. Nourhan Abdelfattah whose first author paper “MiR-584-5p potentiates vincristine and radiation response by inducing spindle defects and DNA damage in medulloblastoma” has been published with Nature Communications! She is also co-author on... Read More →

Dr. August Blackburn graduated from the Integrated Multidisciplinary Graduate Program (IMGP) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (now called the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program) in 2013. He is now the owner of Blackburn Statistics, LLC. When did... Read More →