More students will be entering the School of Nursing, thanks to a $700,000 grant from Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. The grant, which continues a three-year pilot program, will help advance the education of nurses to meet national guidelines and address the nursing shortage by providing more highly educated nurses. “These grants have […]
Rajam Ramamurthy, M.D., may have been born and raised in India, but she’s grown fond of a particular American idiom. “I believe you should put your money where your mouth is,” she says flatly. Dr. Ramamurthy, professor emeritus in pediatrics, has a long history of giving back financially to the Health Science Center, where she […]
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. […]
Researchers at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center were awarded more than $5 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to help in projects ranging from examining the on/off switch of a cancer-fighting molecule to preventing liver cancer in a majority Hispanic South Texas population. “I’m not surprised, but I’m […]
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 […]