Breakthrough Discovery & Innovation Across the Institution
UT Health San Antonio is the premier academic research center of the seventh largest city in the country. The interdisciplinary basic and clinical research across the institution's five schools (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Professions, and Graduate) is the chief catalyst of the $40.2 billion health care and biosciences sector of the city.
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Researcher Resources
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Research by School
Top Stories
Gray Foundation grant expands studies of BRCA in breast, ovarian cancer
From more than 50 submissions to the inaugural Team Science grant program initiative, Dr. Sung, an internationally recognized leader in mechanistic biochemistry of DNA repair, is one of 7 leaders selected to lead a team and the only one outside the East Coast.
Postdoc fellow named Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar
Kelly McGlothen-Bell, Ph.D., RN, nurse researcher and postdoctoral fellow at UT Health San Antonio, has been selected as a 2019 Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Innovation funds are building an entrepreneurial culture
The President's Technology Entrepreneurial Fund is seeding ideas from our entrepreneurial faculty as they tackle new solutions from breast cancer bone metastasis to trauma and medical training.
UT Institutions earn top 5 spot in the world for U.S. patents granted
Researchers and inventors at University of Texas institutions are once again among the world's most innovative, based on the number of patents granted in 2018.
Milestones
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Helped develop the world's first stent (Palmaz Stent), used to treat blood vessel blockages
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Discovered how to increase the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin with potential to cure Type 1 diabetes
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Invented the EZ-IO to rapidly infuse fluids into the bone marrow cavities of patients in shock
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Discovered a link between finasteride and prevention of prostate cancer in men
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One of two universities nationwide with a Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center, Claude D. Pepper, and a Nathan Shock Center
Events
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Rigor and Reproducibility in Biomedical Research Workshop
Saturday, September 28, 2019
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Community Engagement Symposium
Saturday, October 12, 2019
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Vaccine Development Center of San Antonio Conference
Thursday, November 14, 2019