Research
The research conducted by Long School of Medicine faculty reaches further than the immediate outcome of publications, presentations, and even awards. Research changes lives.
Bench to bedside and beyond
Long School of Medicine faculty are international leaders in behavioral health, neuroscience, imaging research, cancer, diabetes, healthy development and aging, and many other fields.
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56th
FY19 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research rank
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1600+
peer-reviewed articles published in FY19
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$118M
in organized research awards in FY19
Meet our researchers
Our researchers are dedicated to translating discoveries into strategies and therapies that address real-world needs.
Researcher spotlight
Patrick Sung, D.Phil.
Patrick Sung, D.Phil., associate dean for research at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, is world-renowned for discovering the mechanism of a fundamental step in HR repair. As associate dean for research, Dr. Sung influences decisions like which researchers to hire, how to leverage their skills, and how best to build out a synergistic research infrastructure. Dr. Sung believes that first understanding the function of complex gene repair pathways is essential to develop novel cancer therapeutics and biomarkers of response to known cancer drugs. “If I achieve that, I will consider myself as having a really successful career, and we are getting there, no doubt."
Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, M.D.
Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, M.D., chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, opened the first COVID-19 Rehabilitation Clinic in the area with services available at the UT Health clinics and at University Hospital, the main hospital partner of UT Health. Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez grew up in South Texas, and never dreamed that she would one day return to San Antonio to become the third ever Hispanic female full professor and chair of a department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the United States.