San Antonio Business Journal: $13M win that could catapult SA cancer research

September 25, 2024

Lei Zheng, MD, PhD, executive director of Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Patrick Sung, DPhil, director of Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, were quoted in this article.   Read More (subscription required)



UT Health San Antonio awarded $12.6 million program grant for cancer research

September 19, 2024

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio  (UT Health San Antonio) was recently awarded a $12.6 million program project grant (P01) from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to expand collaborative efforts to explore the biological mechanisms of BRCA1, BRCA2 and related tumor suppressors and to shed light on potential […]




UT Health San Antonio appoints alumnus as new executive director of Mays Cancer Center

September 3, 2024

  Lei Zheng, MD, PhD, alumnus of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has been appointed executive director of Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio and vice president for oncology for the health science center, effective Sept. 1, 2024. Zheng will also be named the Mays Family Foundation Distinguished […]