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UT Health San Antonio awarded $1.8 million NIH grant for research in addiction recovery support services
With the U.S. grappling with an unprecedented opioid-related overdose crisis, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) was awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research peer recovery support services for people living with opioid use disorder. While medication for opioid use […]
Department of Pharmacology neuroscience researcher committed to treating brain illnesses
David Morilak, PhD, Quincy and Estine Lee endowed chair and professor in the Department of Pharmacology and director of the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, has long been fascinated by brain health.
UT Health San Antonio physicians offer advice for flu, RSV, COVID-19 triple threat
Unlike triple threats celebrated in sports and the entertainment world, no one is celebrating the possibility of a triple threat of the flu, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV and COVID-19. With the winter holidays fast approaching, UT Health San Antonio physicians are encouraging the community to get vaccinated for both the flu and COVID-19, […]
Can Alzheimer’s disease be delayed or stopped before the symptoms begin? A new clinical trial strives to find answers.
The AHEAD clinical trial will assess whether the new Alzheimer’s drug, lecanemab, can delay the onset of dementia in persons who are at high risk of developing the disease. The Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), […]
Professor and chair receives $1.5 million UT System Faculty STARs award to advance cancer drug development
Reuben S. Harris, PhD, professor and chair in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has received a UT System Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award in the amount of $1.5 million to establish his laboratory, assist […]
Be Well Texas, Hill Country MHDD Centers to offer substance use care for Uvalde residents
Be Well Texas, a statewide initiative of UT Health San Antonio, and Hill Country Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Centers entered into an agreement to provide substance use disorder treatment services to Uvalde residents. They will jointly provide on-demand, 24/7 access to a virtual-navigation hub for peer recovery support services, behavioral health screening, case management […]
Be Well Texas, Hill Country MHDD Centers offer substance use care for Uvalde residents
Be Well Texas, a statewide initiative of UT Health San Antonio, and Hill Country Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities Centers entered into an agreement to provide substance use disorder treatment services to Uvalde residents. They will jointly provide on-demand, 24/7 access to a virtual-navigation hub for peer recovery support services, behavioral health screening, case […]
UT Health San Antonio’s Be Well Texas to expand opioid use disorder services to all of the state’s rural counties
UT Health San Antonio received a four-year, $2 million federal grant to expand its substance use disorder response program, Be Well Texas, to the state’s 178 rural counties with limited or no access to resources and support addressing opioid addiction. With the Health Resources and Services Administration grant, Be Well Texas will lead and assist […]
Watch the topping out of UT Health San Antonio’s newest facility
An evergreen tree was lifted to the roof of the new primary, specialty and surgery center recently – signaling the construction of UT Health San Antonio at Kyle Seale Parkway has reached its final height. The topping out of a new building is a Scandinavian tradition dating back more than thirteen centuries. The five-story, 108,000-square-foot […]
UT Regents fund pioneering trauma care research center
The University of Texas System Board of Regents on Nov. 17 approved $2.5 million to establish the Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative at UT Health San Antonio in partnership with University Health’s Level 1 Trauma Center at University Hospital and the U.S. Department of Defense. The new trauma care research center will be the first and only one of its kind in the United States, according to UT System.
UT System Rising STARs award to advance prostate cancer research
Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has received a Rising Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award in the amount of $250,000 to support her cancer research into studying the molecules responsible […]
Parkway outpatient and surgery center holds beam-signing ceremony
Much-needed primary and specialty health care, as well as surgical services, for a growing Northwest Side drew an important step closer with a beam-signing ceremony for the UT Health at Kyle Seale Parkway outpatient and surgery center, signaling that crews have completed the steel construction phase of the project. Leaders of UT Health Physicians, the […]
A third of San Antonians have prediabetes; doctors urge testing
During Diabetes Awareness Month (November), UT Health San Antonio endocrinologist Carolina Solis-Herrera, MD, reminds the community that one in every three people in San Antonio has prediabetes, which physicians define by a hemoglobin A1C percentage of 5.7% to 6.4%. Hemoglobin A1C is a blood test that measures average glucose levels over the past three months. Carolina […]
Students learn empathy through hands-on exercise
A first-year medical student had an unusual class assignment. He pretended to be a 13-year-old girl begging a pawn shop owner for a few dollars to help feed hungry siblings. The unorthodox exercise was part of a poverty simulation that more than 200 Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine students participated in […]
Halloween howler
Members of the Long School of Medicine celebrated the Halloween spirit Monday with gruesome and clever costumes. A ghoulishly good time was had by all, witnesses reported.
UT Health San Antonio Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program celebrates 50 years caring for South Texas
The Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022. The program, which includes its clinical partner, University Health in San Antonio and its affiliated clinic, the Texas Diabetes Institute, is one of the oldest programs in […]
UT Health San Antonio orthopaedics professor and trauma surgeon receives national recognition
Boris Zelle, MD, professor in the Department of Orthopaedics in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has been named the first recipient of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Health Disparities Research Award from the Orthopaedic […]
Noted lupus researcher receives UT System Faculty STARs award
The University of Texas System has awarded Laurence Morel, PhD, with a Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award in the amount of $1.4 million to establish a new research laboratory and program at UT Health San Antonio focused on systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Dr. Morel, a noted SLE researcher, joined the institution […]
Long School of Medicine celebrates Women in Medicine Month
September is Women in Medicine Month (WIMM), an annual celebration recognized by the American Medical Association highlighting the contributions of women physicians since 1990.
‘It’s like being able to see a dime on the surface of the moon.’
UT Health San Antonio is investing $5 million over the next three years in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM for short). The state-of-the-art technology adds a powerful new tool to solve disease riddles at the molecular level.