Medical school essay contest winners provide inspired visions for future of primary care

October 10, 2025

  Three medical students from the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine were named winners of the 2nd annual Carolyn Ann Bellue Holly Annual Student Essay Contest during Primary Care Week Oct. 6–8. The contest winners — Daniel Bellingham, Anisha Oommen and Tommy Torres — will each receive $10,000 in the coming […]




Advancing awareness of lobular breast cancer

October 10, 2025

UT Health San Antonio’s Mays Cancer Center is hosting a Grand Rounds Oct. 15 — Global Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day — to spotlight new approaches to diagnosis and treatment of invasive lobular carcinoma, a common but often overlooked form of breast cancer.






Wasmuth named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

October 1, 2025

Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and co-director of the cryo-EM facility at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. The five-year […]


Teen health beyond the clinic: The rise of Viva Teens

September 26, 2025

  What if teen health wasn’t just about checkups and clinics, but about their goals, their voice and their future? That vision is at the heart of Viva Teens; a brand shaped with input from teens themselves and launched by UT Teen Health to make health accessible and empowering for today’s youth. “We wanted Viva Teens to feel like it truly […]