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August 23, 2022
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.
July 29, 2022
Every year the American Academy of Medical Colleges (AAMC) hosts an annual conference in Washington, DC, called RISE: Developing Future Leaders in Academic Medicine & Science. The curriculum for the free, two-and-a-half-day meeting focuses on four core areas: relationships, influence, self-awareness and effectiveness. The purpose of this conference is to serve as a leadership development seminar for those entering […]
July 29, 2022
Program will pair residents with community health workers for educational experiences. With financial support from leading internal medicine organizations, UT Health San Antonio will launch “Promotores and Residents in Internal Medicine for Equity (PRIME): A Collaborative Health Equity Curriculum.” According to the principal investigators, Jason Morrow, MD, and Elena Jiménez Gutiérrez, MD, this transformational program […]
July 25, 2022
The Office for Graduate Medical Education, in collaboration with University Health and the promotores of San Antonio, held an immersive training experience that highlighted existing challenges to address health-related social determinants in the current health care ecosystem.
July 21, 2022
Lingtao Jin, PhD from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has received a UT System Rising STARs award in the amount of $250,000 to support his research into molecular-targeted therapies to treat human cancers. Jin is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine in the […]
July 15, 2022
Nathan Wiederhold, PharmD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the Fungus Testing Laboratory at UT Health San Antonio, received the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas Billy H. Cooper Award for continued outstanding contributions to the practice of diagnostic clinical mycology. Wiederhold is highly involved in preclinical studies of antifungal agents and […]