- Associate professor, Winifred Mak, MD, PhD, was awarded $3.4M to study the male factors contributing to recurrent pregnancy loss. Mak plans to focus her study on the role of sperm and DNA fragmentation within the sperm to see if it can explain the cause in some recurrent miscarriages. She hopes to further connect the dots and discover possible causes related to the health of the sperm so that treatments can be found and couples can be more proactive.
- Turning on the gene in mice restores the animals’ motor functions The 50 families stretch from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the United States and China. Each family has a child who is paralyzed from a mutation in a single gene named Contactin-Associated Protein 1 (Cntnap1). The children are locked inside their bodies, […]
- October is Health Literacy Month and Health Confianza, a community-wide health literacy nonprofit providing education, workforce training, health information and resources to the San Antonio area, has introduced an online resource with preventive health information. The new online resource was created with health literacy principles and input from community health workers and UT Health San […]
- Afaf Saliba Jaafar knows firsthand the importance of improving the quality of life for those suffering from challenging medical conditions. Her 12-year-old son Brandon Jaafar has severe autism. “The discovery of therapeutics is indeed a lengthy and complex process,” she said. “Families with loved ones suffering from a certain disease often feel a sense of […]
- Winifred Mak, MD, PhD, associate professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has received the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
- Turning on the gene in mice restores the animals’ motor functions Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 20, 2023) — The 50 families stretch from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the United States and China. Each family has a child who is paralyzed from a mutation in a single gene named […]
- UT Health San Antonio has earned a “Best Company Perks & Benefits” award from Comparably, a website that compiles job listings and company culture information, based on feedback from surveys of its current employees. This marks the third award UT Health San Antonio has received from Comparably, after receiving “Best Company for Diversity” (December 2022) […]
- Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 20, 2023 – UT Health San Antonio has earned a “Best Company Perks & Benefits” award from Comparably, a website that compiles job listings and company culture information, based on feedback from surveys of its current employees. This marks the third award UT Health San Antonio […]
- President’s Forum addresses university’s exciting future of growth and innovation UT Health San Antonio is heading into an exciting new era of growth in multiple arenas, from the new UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital and the opening of the UT School of Public Health San Antonio in fall 2024 to new and […]
- UT Health San Antonio was awarded Best Company Perks & Benefits by Comparably, an employer recruitment, culture and branding site. The university received this award out of tens of thousands of large companies based on real-time feedback from current employees over the past 12 months. This award measures how satisfied employees are with their benefits, programs […]
