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.
Start-up MedCognition to develop military medical training modules using augmented reality simulator
MedCognition, a start-up founded through a partnership between UT Health San Antonio and UTSA, is collaborating with Chenega Healthcare Services on a military medicine education and training initiative for the US Army.
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.
TechNovum Accelerator for researchers graduates 8 new companies
A new accelerator program designed for aspiring life science entrepreneurs has helped in the formation of eight new biomedical startups.
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
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