Alzheimer’s expert Seshadri to lead Glenn Biggs Institute

October 24, 2017

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, now called UT Health San Antonio, announces the appointment of Sudha Seshadri, M.D., as the founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Diseases. Dr. Seshadri will join the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine of UT Health San […]


UT Health San Antonio researchers define mechanism that causes kidney cancer to recur

October 23, 2017

SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 23, 2017) ― New research from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has identified the molecular mechanism that causes kidney cancer to resist drug treatment. The findings were published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature Communications. In normal […]


Sam & Ann Barshop Institute breaks ground in Medical Center

October 17, 2017

New location will foster translation of research from the laboratory to the bedside The University of Texas Health Science Center, now called UT Health San Antonio™, broke ground Oct. 17 on a new location for the Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies, one of the world’s premier aging research institutes. William […]




UT Cancer Center testing new drug for HER2-positive breast cancer

October 9, 2017

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day is Oct. 13 SAN ANTONIO (Oct. 9, 2017) ― Teresa Wallace, 52, is an accountant from Alton, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. She is working less with numbers and doing far fewer craft projects after being diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer in 2013. […]

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Santikos Suite offers capability to study Alzheimer’s, other diseases

October 5, 2017

William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, president of UT Health San Antonio, recognized the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation, a fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, on Oct. 2 for its $2.3 million gift to build the John L. Santikos CT and Nuclear Medicine Suite at the university. The state-of-the-art imaging suite is on the […]

President William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, UT Health San Antonio