SUMMER 2008
IN THIS ISSUE
HSC Champions
We are grateful to all of our donors for their continued support and generosity. The following list recognizes just a few of the gifts that enable the university to provide the best in health care…
Frontera de Salud
In phase exams, lectures and wet labs, second-year medical student Linda Pham Pearson is learning the equivalent of a medical encyclopedia. But she and her classmates are soaking up equally valuable…
Student-run free clinics in San Antonio
The poor and disenfranchised have many needs today, not least among them compassionate health care where they live. Health Science Center medical students are learning to provide this class of care…
Tissue bank earns accreditation
The Allograft Resources Tissue Bank, a component of The Transplant Center at the Health Science Center, was awarded accreditation by the prestigious American Association of Tissue Banks. In 2007, the…
HSC lands coveted NIH translational research award
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…
NIA awards $1.5 million to expand Werner’s syndrome studies
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.,…