University of Texas System and UT San Antonio leaders hailed “a new era of hope, healing and discovery” for neurological patients and their families with a ribbon-cutting Nov. 12 for the UT Health San Antonio Center for Brain Health, a $100 million, 103,000-square-foot facility that will bring specialty care, therapy, diagnostics and research under one roof.

With a new $1.9 million grant from the United States Department of Defense, researchers will lead a phase 2, multisite clinical trial to test a novel treatment program designed to strengthen and retrain swallowing function in people with early Parkinson’s.