Infectious Disease
UT Health San Antonio examines infectious diseases of regional and national significance, including hepatitis, HIV, multidrug resistant bacteria, clostridium difficile and MRSA infections.
Infectious disease expert Sunil Ahuja, M.D. earned the prestigious MERIT Award an honor bestowed on less than five percent of NIH-funded researchers.
Our research in antifungal therapies is nationally and internationally renowned.
Clinical trial participation is an invaluable way to contribute to the pursuit of new treatments for infectious diseases. Take action today...volunteer and play a role in finding a cure.
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UT Health San Antonio partners with the Vaccine Development Center of San Antonio which fosters research collaborations to promote excellence in vaccine development.
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Waridibo Allison, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Medical Director at the San Antonio AIDS Foundatoin
Dr. Allison is passionate about improving access to health care for under-served, disadvantaged populations in the US and in resource limited settings overseas, whether that disadvantage is geographical, racial, cultural, gender-based or economical. Her current research focuses on prevention, screening and linkage to care in relation to HIV and viral hepatitis, particularly hepatits C.
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Dr. Paolo Casali awarded NIH Training Grant
Dr. Paolo Casali, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics (MIMG), was awarded a T32 Trining Grant for his Graduate Research in Immunity Program (GRIP) from the National INstitutes of Health.
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Sergio Cepeda and Dr. Ann Griffith Awarded Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship
Fourth year graduate student Sergio Cepeda and his mentor Dr. Ann Griffith, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics are the 2018 recipients of the prestigious Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
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UT Health San Antonio professor leads Texas infectious disease task force
The associate dean for quality and lifelong learning and professor of medicine and infectious diseases at UT Health San Antonio's School of Medicine, Dr. Jan E. Patterson and the Texas Infectious Disease Readiness task force partner with experts from public and private medical schools, hospitals, government agencies, and emergency response orgaizations throughout Texas to increase the general public's knowledge of infectious diseases in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Read the article at The Rivard Report