Mays Cancer Center experts to discuss why getting screenings now is important during May 29 webinar  SAN ANTONIO (May 22, 2020) — Studies have shown that individuals with cancer who get COVID-19 are more likely to have poor outcomes. And with everyone staying home during the pandemic, many people have missed their regular cancer screenings. […]

Nine UT Health San Antonio clinicians and scientists pitched their innovations in the President’s Translational and Entrepreneurial Research Fund (PTEF) virtual forum held May 20. The health care innovations under consideration for the 2020 awards included, among others, a novel enhanced treatment strategy useful for non-healing fractures, a portable suction device for airway management in […]

Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, have identified important drivers that enable tumors to change their behavior and evade anticancer therapies. By studying tumors in cell lines, mice and human samples, the team documented genetic signals that promote the conversion of cancer cells from one stage […]

UT Health San Antonio’s May commencements are occurring virtually this month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 700 students have completed requirements for entry into the health care and research workforce as physicians, nurses, dentists, health professionals and biomedical scientists. Many will remain in Texas to practice. The university’s Long School of Medicine will […]

Media contact: Rosanne Fohn, (210) 567-3026, fohn@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (May 11, 2020) — The COVID-19 Infectious Disease team at UT Health San Antonio and University Health System is beginning the second stage of the remdesivir clinical trial, which is being sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID. This second phase of […]