Bill Greehey, a longtime friend of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, has been named one of the world’s greatest business leaders. In January, the Harvard Business Review’s “100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World” ranked Greehey 12th among U.S. CEOs and 31st worldwide. His ranking was based on his tremendous success as CEO of […]
Students and alumni of the Long School of Medicine, who have benefited from the generosity of Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long, reunited recently to pay tribute to the Austin couple. In 2000 the Longs established the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Presidential Scholars program that awards full scholarships for tuition, fees, instruments, textbooks […]
The Health Science Center was awarded $1.8 million by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to fund work ranging from genetic analysis to patient counseling skills in San Antonio. CPRIT also awarded the Health Science Center a recruitment grant of $1.9 million to recruit Pei Wang, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow from Stanford […]
A $2.5 million, five-year federal grant obtained by the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry will support faculty development and training in the Dental School. The project will provide career development training, including fellowships and workshops for dental students, residents and faculty. Investigators on the grant are Jeffrey L. Hicks, D.D.S., professor, and M. Norma Partida, D.D.S., […]
A transformational gift totaling $1 million from the Kolitz family – Sandi, Bob and Aaron Kolitz, and Karee, Loren and Millie Jones – will support the research of Andrew Brenner, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Brenner is a neuro-oncologist at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) and an assistant professor of medicine at the UT Health Science […]
The Department of Occupational Therapy received a $1,077,765 grant from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services of the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant, “Project Reaching More: Increasing Highly Qualified Occupational Therapists to Serve Children, Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities,” addresses the documented shortage of qualified occupational therapists needed to provide services for […]
Two newly funded grants totaling $1.2 million will support studies of Alzheimer’s disease at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. One grant, $960,000 over four years from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is furthering studies of environmental toxins and their role in Alzheimer’s risk. Qitao Ran, Ph.D., and his […]
Reto Asmis, Ph.D., biochemistry professor and associate dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, was awarded a four-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to look at underlying causes of cardiovascular disease at the cellular level. The NIH grant may allow these scientists to develop new drug treatments that could […]
The Department of Physician Assistant Studies received a five-year, almost $1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide better primary care to more patients. The funding period began Aug. 1 and runs through July 31, 2017. “We expect this project […]
To improve Latinas’ health, a new five-year, $3.48 million National Institutes of Health study will use promotoras – trained community health workers – to lead culturally appropriate group education and exercise sessions for Latinas in a program called Enlace (a Spanish term that means to “connect” or “join”) in community centers in South Texas’ Lower Rio […]