Imagine a suitcase on a bumpy ride. With enough jostling it opens, spilling clothes everywhere. Similarly awkward, the suitcase locks may jam and not open at the destination. This analogy illustrates the importance of the protective capsule, called the capsid, which surrounds the HIV-1 genome. The capsid has to disassemble once the virus enters the […]
Short-term cognitive behavioral therapy dramatically reduces suicide attempts among at-risk military personnel, according to findings from a research study that included UT Health Science Center investigators. The two-year study, funded by the Army’s Military Operational Medicine Research Program, was conducted at Fort Carson, Colorado. It involved 152 active-duty soldiers who had either attempted suicide or […]
Peter Agre, M.D., Nobel laureate and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, spoke about the power of science during the 2015 Presidential Distinguished Lecture March 26. “We should never underestimate the power of science to open doors,” he said. Dr. Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of aquaporins, […]
San Antonio area high school students will have the opportunity to participate in a unique, intensive, three-year biomedical research program at the Health Science Center, thanks to a $675,000 grant from The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund. Voelcker fund trustees helped establish the Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy at the Health Science Center in 2009 […]
A $600,000 three-year grant from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation is supporting a new nurse-led clinic for children who attend the AVANCE-San Antonio Head Start program at the Fenley Center, a child-development campus in the Harlandale Independent School District. The clinic offers preventative screenings and primary health care through an agreement between the UT […]
Bandana Chatterjee, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine, is a new fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has conducted almost a quarter-century of prostate cancer research in the Long School of Medicine. Andrea Giuffrida, Ph.D., was appointed vice president for research after serving as ad interim since May 2014. […]
Four School of Medicine faculty were honored at the national meeting of the American College of Physicians: Marvin Forland, M.D., MACP, professor emeritus of medicine who helped launch the Long School of Medicine, received the Texas Chapter Centennial Award. A founding faculty member of the Health Science Center, Dr. Forland recorded a video history interview. View Ralph […]
A national online network to reduce obesity received a one-year, $1.3 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children, created in 2007, is a San Antonio-based network of 10,000 parents, leaders, academics and advocates seeking environmental and policy solutions to Latino obesity. The […]
With the ripping of envelopes, more than 200 School of Medicine students learned where they would spend the next three to seven years as residents before launching their medical careers. Match Day, held March 20 at John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes, is an annual rite of passage for medical students and is held […]
Scientists have long believed that the tendency of experiencing stress-related disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and obesity is inherited or is the result of traumatic events. But scientists from the Health Science Center who study depression in teens are looking into another factor—the role that changing genes play. Subtle changes in a gene […]