‘It’s like being able to see a dime on the surface of the moon.’

August 19, 2022

  UT Health San Antonio invests in state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy, adding a powerful new tool to solve disease riddles at the molecular level. Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 18, 2022) — When physicians observe or hear of symptoms in their patients, they order CT scans, MRIs or other types of imaging analysis […]

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Robotic kidney cancer surgery shows desirable outcomes in study

August 17, 2022

  Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 17, 2022) — Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body’s biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the heart. Via the IVC, cancer may infiltrate the liver […]

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Boston researcher Ramachandran selected to be inaugural dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio

July 22, 2022

– Contact: Will Sansom, UT Health San Antonio, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu Joe Izbrand, UTSA, 210-458-8754, joe.izbrand@utsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (July 22, 2022) — Vasan Ramachandran, MD, a distinguished public health researcher at Boston University and principal investigator of the Framingham Heart Study, has been named founding dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health San […]

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Internal Medicine Residency Program gains health equity curriculum grant

July 13, 2022

Program will pair residents with community health workers for educational experiences Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (July 13, 2022) — With financial support from leading internal medicine organizations, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) will launch “Promotores and Residents in Internal Medicine for Equity (PRIME): […]

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Nathan Wiederhold receives Billy H. Cooper Award for contributions to diagnostic clinical mycology

July 8, 2022

Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – Nathan Wiederhold, PharmD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of the Fungus Testing Laboratory at UT Health San Antonio, received the Medical Mycological Society of the Americas Billy H. Cooper Award for continued outstanding contributions to the practice of diagnostic clinical mycology. Wiederhold is highly […]

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