UT Health San Antonio, SwRI researchers win international automated 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 […]

Bradley Brimhall and Edward Medina

Public invited to HPV Symposium Feb. 15

February 11, 2019

WHAT:           The American Cancer Society will host 70 health care professionals and members of the general public at the 2019 HPV Symposium: Attacking HPV from Every Angle. The event aims to raise awareness about human papillomavirus, or HPV, and its vaccine that can help prevent six types of cancer. The society is partnering with some of […]



Test for deadly lung disease is used for 1st time in Texas

February 8, 2019

A San Antonio pulmonary care team utilizes a new tool to more accurately diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). A UT Health San Antonio lung specialist is the first in Texas to use a new genomic test to better and less invasively diagnose a patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a serious chronic, progressive and scarring […]

Dr. Nambiar

Do all chemotherapies have equal heart risk long term?

January 31, 2019

Study of 28,000 childhood cancer survivors finds important differences In long-term survivors of childhood cancer, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of early death from non-cancer causes. In a new study, published Jan. 31 in JAMA Oncology, researchers compared four chemotherapy drugs with development of cardiomyopathy (abnormal heart muscle with impaired function) years after treatment. […]

Dr. Greg Aune

STEM-focused teacher conference set for Feb. 2

January 28, 2019

Contributed by Chase Fordtran More than 150 area K-12 science educators will attend the largest STEM-focused teacher-led conference in San Antonio on Feb. 2 at UT Health San Antonio. The 9th Annual Teacher Enrichment Leadership Academy conference will provide workshops by fellow teachers, leaders from the local science community and UT Health San Antonio’s own researchers, all focused on […]

First-in-human trial of senolytic drugs encouraging

January 7, 2019

Small pilot study points to feasibility of larger trials in age-related diseases UT Health San Antonio researchers, collaborating with the Mayo Clinic and the Wake Forest School of Medicine, are the first to publish results on the treatment of a deadly age-related disease in human patients with drugs called senolytics. The findings were posted Jan. […]