ACS grant to launch $4.1 million Latino Cancer Health Equity Research Center

February 21, 2023

  Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, of UT Health San Antonio is launching the new “Avanzando Equidad de Salud: Latino Cancer Health Equity Research Center” thanks to a four-year, $4.08 million grant from the American Cancer Society. Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH The Avanzando Equidad de Salud Center, which begins this month, is a response to the […]




$4 million from CPRIT to support cancer, aging and smoking cessation studies

February 16, 2023

  The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) will receive $4 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas in the state agency’s latest round of funding announced Feb. 15. A $2 million CPRIT recruitment award will bring Lu Wang, PhD, to UT Health San Antonio. […]




UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing Vice Dean receives UT System STARs award

February 2, 2023

Lixin (Lee) Song, PhD, RN, FAAN, vice dean of research and scholarship at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) School of Nursing, has received a Translational Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award in the amount of $600,000 to renovate space to leverage her ongoing research […]



Alzheimer’s disease clinical trial seeks 21 area volunteers

January 31, 2023

Study will evaluate senolytics — drugs that clear defective ‘zombie’ cells A clinical trial conducted at UT Health San Antonio aims to “stomp” out Alzheimer’s disease. Clearing old, damaged “zombie” cells from the brain may be one way to do it. The study, called SToMP-AD (Senolytic Therapy to Modulate the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease), seeks 21 San […]