Weaker joins class of 2006 Minnie Stevens Piper Professors

May 16, 2006

Frank J. Weaker, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of cellular and structural biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was named a 2006 Piper Professor in early May by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation.





National Inventors Hall of Fame inducts Palmaz

May 9, 2006

Tinkering in the garage led a young doctor to create a device that would impact the world in more ways than anyone could have imagined. World-renowned inventor and radiologist Julio Palmaz, M.D., the Ashbel Smith Professor at the Health Science Center, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame during a ceremony May 5-6 in Akron, Ohio.