Mission

To grow a multi-professional research infrastructure that leverages intellectual capital and enhances the success of our scientists in translating discoveries to promote health and reduce health disparities.

Vision

Be an international leader in making high-impact, innovative discoveries that improve human health, equity and the health care delivery system.

Research Goals

The university’s research goals according to the 2023-2027 strategic plan are:

  • Attract, incentivize, and retain high-potential and high-performing research faculty and teams
  • Expand discovery in targeted and emerging research areas across the research continuum to create new knowledge, treatments, and patents
  • Grow translational and clinical research, including leveraging the expanded clinical and community footprints
  • Increase inclusive, collaborative, multidisciplinary research and community partnerships

Top Stories

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University among top-ranking academic research medical centers

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio received $131.5 million in National Institutes of Health funding in federal fiscal year 2023, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The university ranked No. 72 out of the 2,886 public and private institutions that received NIH funding in federal fiscal year 2023, an increase in NIH funding of 31% over the previous fiscal year.

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CPRIT awards approximately $16.4 million to advance children’s cancer research and attract top researchers to South Texas

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has secured approximately $16.4 million in funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) since last August, which will be utilized to help advance research into cancers that affect children and adolescents as well as bring three noted cancer researchers to the institution.

Carolina Solis-Herrera, MD shown consulting with a medical patient

Pre-diabetes gets its due: New $1.2 million award aimed at early intervention and treatment

Carolina Solis-Herrera, MD, a physician-scientist, associate professor and chief of endocrinology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has received a first-of-its-kind, $1.2 million award from Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio to implement early intervention measures for the condition. 

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Thinning of brain region may signal dementia risk 5-10 years before symptoms

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio researchers, working with colleagues from The University of California, Davis, and Boston University, conducted an MRI brain imaging study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Milestones

Helped develop the world's first stent (Palmaz Stent), used to treat blood vessel blockages

Discovered how to increase the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin with potential to cure Type 1 diabetesDiscovered how to increase the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin with potential to cure Type 1 diabetes

Invented the EZ-IO to rapidly infuse fluids into the bone marrow cavities of patients in shock

Discovered a link between finasteride and prevention of prostate cancer in men

One of two universities nationwide with a Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center, Claude D. Pepper, and a Nathan Shock Center