Headline News: NIH selects Perez as model of the minority neuroscientist    
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Stephanie Perez has come a long way since she was a teenage mom living in friends’ homes and at the Seton Home for young women in San Antonio’s South Side. Now 31, Perez is a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, where she expects to finish her Ph.D. in December......more»

Headline News: President Kalkwarf honored for outstanding leadership   
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
President <i>ad interim</i> Kenneth Kalkwarf, D.D.S., M.S., was honored recently with the presentation of three proclamations honoring his 25 years of outstanding leadership and dedicated service to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Twenty-four of those years were as dean of the Dental School. .....more»

Headline News: CPRIT funds CTRC study on glioblastoma drug resistance    
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Studies of how to overcome drug resistance in deadly central nervous system tumors called glioblastomas will propel forward, thanks to $755,718 from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas. Andrew Brenner, M.D., Ph.D., is principal investigator of the research is being conducted at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center, part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio......more»

Headline News: Dr. Martínez Rogers discusses ‘fiscal cliff’ at White House   
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Norma Martínez Rogers, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, was invited to the White House recently with other leaders from the Latino community to attend a working meeting on resolving the “fiscal cliff” in a balanced way. Dr. Martínez Rogers is a clinical professor of family and community health systems in the School of Nursing at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio......more»

Headline News: Regents approve new university for South Texas   
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The University of Texas System Board of Regents have unanimously approved an initiative to authorize Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa to work with the Texas Legislature to establish a new university that includes the University of Texas at Brownsville, the University of Texas-Pan American and the future South Texas School of Medicine......more»

Headline News: Rapamycin research results in new biotech company    
Posted: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The ability of rapamycin-related drugs to potentially slow the aging process — suggested in animal experiments at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio — has led to establishment of a new San Antonio biotech company. The holding company, Rapamycin Holdings Inc., announced Dec. 7 that it is licensing exclusive rights to intellectual property central to several aspects of the rapamycin-related drugs. .....more»

Headline News: CTRC researchers involved in SA Breast Cancer Symposium    
Posted: Friday, November 30, 2012
Nearly 7,500 researchers, clinicians and advocates will gather in San Antonio next week at one of the largest breast cancer symposiums in the world. The 35th annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, which runs Dec. 4-8, will feature an international lineup of presenters and moderators, including several faculty members from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio......more»

Headline News: Sale of holiday greeting cards supports two HSC programs   
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Two areas of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio are selling holiday greeting cards designed by patients to support programs. The Cancer Therapy & Research Center of the UT Health Science Center is selling greeting cards and other holiday gift items to support the CTRC Patient Assistance Fund. The Department of Pediatrics’ project buys books for the Reach Out and Read Program......more»

Headline News: Forty-eight faculty members receive promotion or tenure    
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Forty-eight faculty members from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio were honored at a reception Nov. 7 for earning a promotion or tenure. Among the honorees were 39 from the School of Medicine, six from the Dental School, two from the School of Nursing and one from the School of Health Professions......more»

Headline News: Dr. Curiel publishes textbook on tumor immunotherapy   
Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A UT Health Science Center San Antonio faculty member has published a comprehensive textbook in the rapidly evolving field of tumor immunotherapy. Tyler Curiel, M.D., M.P.H., a professor in the School of Medicine, is editor of “Cancer Immunotherapy,” the first major textbook on the topic since 2007 and the most comprehensive to date. .....more»