Health Science Center leaders celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC). President Cigarroa recognized and honored the support of many that led to the RAHC’s establishment and its first five years of development. The RAHC has a Medical Education Division in Harlingen and a Medical Research Division in Edinburg and serves […]
More than 200 volunteers, community leaders and physicians on May 20 celebrated the joining of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center and the UT Health Science Center. Pictured at the ceremony are (L-R) John Korbell, former chair of the CTRC Board of Governors, and his wife, Bonnie, as well as Graciela Cigarroa, President Cigarroa, Louise […]
The Health Science Center has landed a five-year, $11.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to support trauma research. The contract will support studies of resuscitation, monitoring and metabolic control of injured soldiers and civilians. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Md., is the sponsor.
Increasing the number of nursing graduates by 88 in 2007 has resulted in the awarding of more than $686,500 in additional state funding for the School of Nursing. The funding – the second-highest awarded among public and private nursing schools in the state – will be used to add eight new nursing faculty members and […]
The Health Science Center has received a $26 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources, making it one of only three recipients in Texas. The award establishes the Health Science Center’s Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science, the entity responsible for realizing the vision […]
Researchers will expand studies of a protein mutated in the rapid-aging disorder Werner’s syndrome, thanks to $1.5 million from the National Institute on Aging. Led by Robert Marciniak, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and a faculty member of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, scientists will seek to determine whether the protein […]
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded $1 million to support construction of a state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery center at the Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC). “The Health Science Center has done remarkable work and is among the EDA’s most valued partners in the Southwestern Region,” said Pedro Garza, regional […]
Biochemist Katherine Wood Klinger, Ph.D., and Microbiologist Jeffrey D. Klinger, Ph.D. Thirty years ago, biochemist Katherine Wood Klinger, Ph.D., and microbiologist Jeffrey D. Klinger, Ph.D., learned the innovative patterns of analytical thought, problem solving and research-to-clinical-medicine bridge building that have established them as senior leaders at the biopharmaceutical company […]