Awards and Accolades
CPRIT awards UT Health San Antonio $6.6 million to accelerate cancer research
June 23, 2026
By Jane Alvarez-Hernandez The state agency, Cancer Research Prevention Institute of Texas (CPRIT), which focuses on the fight against cancer, has now awarded $167 million to UT Health San Antonio since 2010. Understanding obesity’s role in increasing liver cancer risk Masahiro Morita, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and a researcher with […]
Awards and Accolades
June 23, 2026
Research impact in South Texas and beyond By Jane Alvarez-Hernandez “Our researchers receiving highly competitive awards, such as CPRIT, to improve the lives of Texans, is a testament to the excellence of UT Health San Antonio’s research enterprise and demonstrates the extraordinary science conducted here,” said Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH, senior executive vice president […]
Hyundai Hope on Wheels® awards $100K to continue its fight against childhood cancer
June 23, 2026
By Eileen Teves In the United States, 43 children are diagnosed with cancer every day. Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children under the age of 14. Worldwide, about 400,000 children and adolescents develop cancer each year, only half of whom are diagnosed. Since 1998, Hyundai Hope on Wheels® has […]
Ramirez awarded Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health
June 23, 2026
Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, MPH, has received the 2025 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health from the American Public Health Association. Ramirez is director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences and associate director of cancer outreach and engagement at Mays Cancer Center. The […]
$2 million CPRIT award brings top cancer researcher to UT Health San Antonio
July 30, 2025
As part of a $52 million Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grant, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio received $2 million in funding to bring a top cancer researcher on board in 2024. Maria Falzone, PhD, will join as a full member of UT Health San Antonio’s Mays […]
Mays Cancer Center receives life-saving gift from American Heart Association to support cancer patients
July 30, 2025
Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has partnered with the American Heart Association (AHA) to support breast cancer patients undergoing treatment. The AHA has contributed a $2,000 grant for hypertension and food insecurity clinical programs, 75 blood pressure monitors and 100 $25 Healthy Rewards Coupons for boxes […]
American Cancer Society awards nearly $1 million to UT Health San Antonio cancer researcher
July 30, 2025
Zhijie “Jason” Liu, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, received a $960,000 grant from the American Cancer Society in 2024. A Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Scholar in Cancer Research, Liu will use the funding to enhance his […]
Hyundai Hope on Wheels® grant funds life-saving research
July 30, 2025
Gail Tomlinson, MD, PhD, a pediatric oncologist and director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at UT Health San Antonio, received two grants totaling $500,000 at the Hyundai Hope on Wheels® event. Tomlinson is a physician-scientist studying hepatoblastoma and other aggressive liver tumors in children at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute. The first was […]
Dr. David Gius accepted into Association of American Physicians
July 30, 2025
David Gius, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist at UT Health San Antonio, has been accepted into the prestigious Association of American Physicians (AAP) for the advancement of scientific and practical medicine. Gius is the associate cancer director of translational research at the Mays Cancer Center and assistant dean of research and professor of radiation oncology at […]
CPRIT grant to support HPV vaccination of childhood cancer survivors
July 29, 2025
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) provided a $1 million grant to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to expand a vaccination program for human papillomavirus (HPV) among childhood cancer survivors. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection and can also cause cancer. However, vaccination rates for […]
UT Health San Antonio scientists awarded V Foundation grants to advance cancer research
July 29, 2025
Elizabeth Wasmuth, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was named this year’s V Foundation Abeloff Scholar. The award is for her proposal related to steroid receptor aberrations in cancers such as prostate, breast, uterine and ovarian. The grant is […]
UT Health San Antonio faculty receive $1.6 million in STARs Awards to advance cancer research
July 29, 2025
Mays Cancer Center Executive Director Dr. Zheng earns $500,000 UT System STARs award Lei Zheng, MD, PhD, executive director of the Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been awarded a $500,000 Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award from The University of Texas System to […]