The Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio has been awarded a $150,000 grant from LeukemiaTexas to develop novel therapies for patients with leukemia who do not benefit from existing treatments. Francis Giles, M.D., deputy director of the CTRC and director of the CTRC’s Institute for Drug Development, […]
A national movement away from the term “allied health” led to the renaming of one of the five schools of the Health Science Center. The School of Allied Health Sciences is now the School of Health Professions in recognition of its mission. The renaming does not affect existing accreditations within the school. “Respiratory therapists, clinical […]
This past fall, 40 students were recruited to begin the School of Health Professions’ first doctoral degree: a doctorate in physical therapy. Converting the current master’s degree program to a three-year doctoral program brings the university in line with a national trend to offer a doctoral degree in this growing field. The move is based […]
Three Health Science Center medical student and resident education programs are among only six programs statewide to receive 2008 teaching grants from The University of Texas System. The programs will develop a case-based virtual education resource; augment community service learning activities of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics; and create an educational interdisciplinary intervention […]
The EZ-IO, developed by Vidacare Corporation of San Antonio with research assistance from faculty members at the Health Science Center, won the medical devices category in the Wall Street Journal’s eighth annual Technology Innovation Awards.
We are grateful to all of our donors for their continued support and generosity. We recognize just a few of the gifts that enable the university to provide the best in health care careers education, biomedical research, patient care and community service to San Antonio and the South Texas/Border Region. Thank you for helping us […]
When Beverly and Will O’Hara of Austin decided to make a donation to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, without hesitation they agreed upon making a planned gift. Mr. O’Hara, a graduate of and lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, and Beverly, have always been savvy in […]
Incorporated in 1950, the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation has been a great advocate of the Health Science Center and continues to make an impact on countless other projects across the nation, including cancer research, the arts, youth development programs, and services for the disabled. At the heart of the foundation […]
The mission of the Health Science Center – to provide the best in health careers education, biomedical research, patient care and community service to San Antonio and the South Texas/Border Region – is being met because of the generous support of longtime visionary donors such as Helen Kleberg Groves and the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. […]
Sunil K. Ahuja, M.D., was awarded a $1.5 million Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) to pursue further his groundbreaking research on understanding host factors that influence HIV/AIDS. Dr. Ahuja is professor of medicine, microbiology/immunology and biochemistry, director of the Veteran’s Administration Center for AIDS and HIV Infection and the […]