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The Fall 2023 Biochemistry & Structural Biology Seminar Series Kicks Off 8/25
August 15, 2023
The Biochemistry & Structural Biology Seminar Series starts Friday August 25th @ 12pm (CST) at Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine campus, 3rd floor in RM# 309L. We have an awesome lineup of in-person speakers! The Seminar Series kicks off with Damian Young, PhD, R.P. Doherty, Jr.-Welch Chair in Science, Associate Director in […]
Voelcker Fund award supports innovative research
May 26, 2023
2023 Presidential Awards recipients recognized at ceremony
April 14, 2023
The Fall 2022 Biochemistry & Structural Biology Seminar Series Kicks Off Friday
September 8, 2022
The Biochemistry & Structural Biology Seminar Series starts Friday, September 9, 2022 @ 12pm (CST) at Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine campus, 3rd floor in RM# 309L. We have an awesome lineup of in-person speakers! The Seminar Series kicks off with Damian Young, PhD, R.P. Doherty, Jr.-Welch Chair in Science, Associate Director […]
San Antonio Medical School Gets Millions to Research Breast Cancer
August 23, 2019
UT Health Science Center Biochemistry & Structural Biology cancer researchers have made significant funding gains in recent years, in part because of the state program that pumps billions of dollar into efforts to fight the disease. Congratulations! https://www.expressnews.com/business/health-care/article/San-Antonio-medical-school-gets-millions-to-14840878.php
Welcome New Faculty
February 7, 2019
The Department of Biochemistry would like to welcome Dr. Patrick Sung, Dr. Eloise Dray, Youngho Kwon, James Daley, Bernard Fongang, and Barbara De La Pena Avalos.
Structure-guided design of a new generation of anti-parasitic drugs
January 4, 2019
The Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology published an article selected as the Featured Letter and shown on the cover of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. The journal article is found here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00257 Labs involved include X-ray Crystallography Core Laboratory (Alex Taylor), Tim Anderson (Texas Biomedical Research Institute), John Hart (Biochemistry), Phil LoVerde (Biochemistry & Pathology) […]
2018-2019 Greehey Graduate Fellowship Award.
January 2, 2019
Congratulations to Courtney Johnson for receiving The 2018-2019 Greehey Graduate Fellowship Award. Her research will be on the “Investigation of oncogenic fusion proteins involved in childhood sarcomas.”
New Faculty: Weixing Zhao, Ph.D
December 17, 2018
Weixing Zhao earned his B.S and Ph.D. from Peking University, China, and received postdoctoral training at Yale University, where he focused on understanding homology-directed repair of DNA double-strand breaks that is dependent on the tumor suppressors BRCA1 and BRCA2. Currently, as a new faulty at Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Greehey Children’s Cancer […]