{"id":6197,"date":"2024-09-23T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2024-09-23T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T21:36:24","slug":"biomedsa-award-for-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/2024\/09\/23\/biomedsa-award-for-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"BioMedSA Award for Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience celebrates local and national innovators in the healthcare and bioscience industry, including patient care, education, research and development, leadership, public policy and medical technology. This year, Dr. Jason S. McLellen, UT Austin as Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences, was honored for his contributions in structure-based vaccine\u00a0design led to pivotal learnings necessary for the development of trailblazing\u00a0cures and antibody therapies for COVID-19, as well as respiratory syncytial\u00a0virus (RSV) and Ebola.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A special thank you to the President&#8217;s Office and VPR office for sponsoring the attendance and supporting the GSBS Office of Student Success<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Several UT Health Faculty and students attended the event and six GSBS students volunteered at the event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6191\" src=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Faculty-550x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Faculty-550x346.jpg 550w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Faculty-800x504.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Faculty-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Faculty.jpg 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Faculty:\u00a0Dr. Manzoor Bhat, Dr. Manjeet Rao, Dr. Jean Jiang, Dr. Daohong Zhou, Dr. Yogesh Gupta, Dr. James Lechleiter, Dr. Ruben Harris, Dr. Laurence Morel, Dr. Amanda Ramirez, Dr. Dan Salamango<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6192\" src=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Volunteers-550x348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Volunteers-550x348.jpg 550w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Volunteers-800x506.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Volunteers-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/mimg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/09\/Volunteers.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Volunteers<\/strong>:\u00a0Virgil Bideau, Shiva Kazempour Dehkordi, Paulomi Modi, Heetanshi Jain, Asia Amii, and Yiling Chen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Students<\/strong>:\u00a0Emily Leavitt, Sarah Wedemeyer, Sara Kathryn Gaiser, John Im, Ashley Auerbach, Heetanshi Jain, Brenden Determann II, and Joseph Goodson-Gregg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience celebrates local and national innovators in the healthcare and bioscience industry, including patient care, education, research and development, leadership, public policy and medical technology. 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