Greehey researcher receives UT System’s Rising STARs award
February 26, 2019
Dr. Zheng has extensive experience in the development of computational tools and mining of high-throughput datasets.
UT Health San Antonio researchers awarded $3 million for cancer studies
February 22, 2019
UT Health San Antonio faculty researchers will receive $3 million in new grants announced Feb. 21 by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).
Health professionals urged to endorse HPV vaccination
February 21, 2019
“I only wonder how my life would have been different if I’d had the HPV vaccination,” said Liz Kapeel, 27, a graduate of Texas State University who now works in Austin. The young woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 25 and has received extensive treatment. She described her experiences at the “2019 HPV […]
UT Health San Antonio, SwRI researchers win cancer detection challenge
February 13, 2019
UT Health San Antonio pathologists and Southwest Research Institute engineers placed first in an international challenge to develop an automated method to detect breast cancer tumor cells. They trained a computer algorithm previously used for automotive, robotics and defense applications to identify cancer cells for the BreastPathQ: Cancer Cellularity Challenge. The American Association of Physicists […]
Symposium educates public on the cancer journey
January 18, 2019
The importance of exercise, a healthful diet, prayer/meditation and social support during the cancer journey were some of the take-away messages.
Rivard Report: Cancer death rates continue to fall, but obesity-related cancers on the rise
January 14, 2019
Dr. Ruben Mesa, director of the UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Dr. Michael Liss, assistant professor of urology at UT Health San Antonio, are both quoted as cancer experts in this story. Read the story here