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Noted cancer researcher receives UT System Faculty STARs award

April 1, 2022

Daohong Zhou, MD, a professor with tenure in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, has received a UT System Faculty STARs award in the amount of $1,487,563 to support his drug discovery research.




Reuben Harris, PhD, to chair Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology

March 17, 2022

Cancer and virology researcher Reuben Harris, PhD, has been named chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at UT Health San Antonio. The department is in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine. Dr. Harris, a professor with tenure, will assume his duties effective April 11, 2022, announced Robert Hromas, […]



Cancer researcher secures prestigious UT System Faculty STARs award

March 1, 2022

Gang Huang, PhD, professor in the Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and holder of the Kathryn Mays Johnson Distinguished Chair in Oncology at UT Health San Antonio, has received a UT System Faculty Science and […]


Groundbreaking research offers hope to unlock the keys to childhood type 2 diabetes

February 16, 2022

Yidong Bai, PhD, professor, Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy, was recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio, whose mission is focused on improving community health. The funds will be used to investigate the role of mitochondrial regulation and dysfunction in childhood type 2 diabetes, which is particularly […]


Trailblazing diabetes researcher receives 2022 Luminary in Cardiometabolic Medicine Award

January 28, 2022

Noted diabetes researcher Ralph DeFronzo, MD, has received the 2022 Luminary in Cardiometabolic Medicine award from the Metabolic Institute of America. Dr. DeFronzo is chief of diabetes at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and deputy director of the University Health System’s Texas Diabetes Institute. As the […]



Can HIV infection be prevented? First mRNA vaccine study for HIV in San Antonio’s history is getting underway.

January 27, 2022

UT Health San Antonio and clinical partner University Health soon will begin a Phase 1 clinical research study of an HIV vaccine candidate produced by Moderna.




Team IDs mechanism underlying rare children’s blood cancer

January 24, 2022

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), reporting this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified a mechanism through which two antiviral genes, when mutated, promote a childhood cancer called pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Scientists at Oklahoma State University and Cornell University collaborated […]



Researcher receives UT System Faculty STARs award

January 24, 2022

Alexander Mazin, PhD, from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has received a $900,000 Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award from The University of Texas System. Dr. Mazin was recruited by UT Health San Antonio in spring 2021 as part of a $6 million […]



Immune memory less durable after severe COVID-19, study suggests

January 6, 2022

UT Health San Antonio researchers compared results in less-severe and severe COVID-19 cases one and five months after symptom onset.



UT System Rising STARs award to advance research into metabolic disorders and liver cancer

January 6, 2022

The University of Texas System has awarded Peng Zhao, PhD, a Rising STARs Award. Dr. Zhao is an assistant professor of biochemistry and structural biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio).