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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.

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 […]

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 […]

Vaccines for this infection have been challenging to produce UT Health has granted an exclusive global license allowing an Ohio biopharmaceutical company to develop university research discoveries into a novel oral vaccine for chlamydia. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chlamydia is the bacterial sexually transmitted infection most frequently reported […]

  Cancer survivors, cancer patients, friends, family and caregivers are invited to attend Living Beyond Cancer A-Z, a free symposium on Jan. 21, put on by the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center. It will feature a full day of learning, empowerment and discovery and will take place […]

The Mays Cancer Center sponsored a “Mega Lung” exhibit at UTSA on the day of the Great American Smokeout to educate young people about the lungs. Representatives from the Mays Cancer Center and UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing were on hand to answer questions. Read the story.

Philip Ong, MD, a pulmonologist with UT Health San Antonio, was a guest on Good Morning San Antonio to discuss lung cancer myths and risks. Watch the story.  

Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – The Living Beyond Cancer A-Z: A Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center Symposium, featuring a full day of learning, empowerment and discovery, will be held Jan. 21 at UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine’s Holly Auditorium. “For cancer survivors, […]

Josephine Taverna, MD, assistant professor of hematology oncology and a practitioner at the Mays Cancer Center, was interviewed for this news story. Watch the story.