News

EDA, community partners fund ‘virtual hospital’ at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO - A $1 million grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and funding from ...

National Trauma Institute Seeks To Stop The Bleeding With Dramatic Campaign In Times Square

(SAN ANTONIO) – The National Trauma Institute (NTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to funding ...

Events

16th Annual Trauma Symposium

16th Annual Trauma SymposiumAug. 30 – Sept. 1, 2010Marriott RivercenterSan Antonio, Texas A ...

Save the Date for the Annual Julio Palmaz Award Dinner

Save The Date 5th Annual Julio Palmaz Award Dinner. Honoring a local biomedical innovator.Thursday, ...

Industry Publications

The Mission

The Mission is published by the University of Texas Health Science Center.

UTSA Discovery

UTSA Discovery is published annually for the Office of the Vice President for Research by the Office ...

News
July 23, 2010
SAN ANTONIO - A $1 million grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and funding from several community partners will help the UT Health Science San Antonio's School of Nursing build a new, ... More

July 15, 2010
(SAN ANTONIO) – The National Trauma Institute (NTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to funding trauma research in the United States, launched a powerful new awareness and giving campaign in ... More

July 13, 2010
SAN ANTONIO – In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) have found that exposure to cigarette smoke can alter gene expression -- the ... More

July 13, 2010
SAN ANTONIO – As the next step in aggressively increasing sales and growing the company’s international footprint, Vidacare Corporation has promoted Mark Mellin to Acting CEO and President ... More

June 15, 2010
San Antonio HC+B Magazine “Made in China” may soon give way to “Discovered/Developed in China.”  This was one of the eye-opening observations a small group of San Antonio ... More

June 11, 2010
                    InCube Labs Chairman and CEO Mir Imran during the announcement at City Hall. Photo by John Davenport By David Hendricks ... More

June 11, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal InCube Labs Chairman and CEO Mir Imran on Thursday joined local and state leaders in unveiling plans to open a branch of his company ... More

June 8, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal The START Center in San Antonio has become one of 15 cancer research sites worldwide selected by Merck & Co. Inc. to become part of the Merck Oncology Collaborative ... More

May 14, 2010
By David Saleh Rauf - San Antonio Express-News Texas is investing $3 million in a Dallas-based medical device company created by Dr. Julio Palmaz, a former University of Texas Health Science Center ... More

May 4, 2010
PHOTO: Miguel Yacaman, who heads UTSA's physics and astronomy department, shows off images taken by the world's most powerful electron microscope, nicknamed 'Helenita' after King Ranch heiress Helen ... More

April 30, 2010
Starting this month, an estimated 70 million people from 192 countries and 42 international organizations will gather in China to celebrate the 2010 Shanghai World Expo in what is expected to be the ... More

April 13, 2010
By Elizabeth Allen - Express-News  The University of Texas Health Science Center has named Dr. Francisco González-Scarano the new dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for ... More

April 9, 2010
San Antonio/Corpus Christi, Texas:  The South Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (STRCIC) today announced the formation of its Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) Regional Board.  ... More

April 9, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal DPT Laboratories Ltd. spent more than $30 million to upgrade its sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities in Lakewood, N.J. The company invested in a new water system ... More

March 18, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal DPT Laboratories Ltd. implemented a restructuring of the company’s manufacturing and pharmaceutical contract development operations to establish three new centers ... More

March 18, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI) has rolled out a new wound-management system in the European and Canadian markets. San Antonio-based KCI (NYSE: KCI) has developed the Prevena ... More

March 17, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa honored three professors within the system — including one in San Antonio — with the 2010 Chancellor’s ... More

March 11, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal The Cancer Prevention and Research Institution of Texas awarded nearly $600,000 to two leading San Antonio research organizations to fund programs that will help prevent ... More

March 8, 2010
Bio-pharmaceutical company ViroXis will be the first to move in The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) celebrates the grand opening of its New Venture Incubator (NVI), a facility with laboratory, ... More

March 1, 2010
Much-Anticipated Technology That Offers Alternative to "Barbaric" Traditional Procedures Is Now Commercially Available (SAN ANTONIO) - For many cancer patients, a bone marrow biopsy and/or ... More

February 26, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded two contracts totaling $41.5 million to established the long-awaited “polytrauma center” to care ... More

February 2, 2010
San Antonio Business Journal The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a new patent to GenSpera Inc. to cover the intellectual property on the company’s second anti-cancer drug compound currently ... More

January 28, 2010
GenSpera Inc. has reached a milestone in the development of its investigational cancer drug. In a phase 1 clinical study, doctors at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center in Madison treated ... More

January 22, 2010
Pharma giants pick San Antonio cancer center for drug testing by W. Scott Bailey, San Antonio Business Journal When competing drug companies Merck & Co. Inc. and AstraZeneca announced in June their ... More

January 21, 2010
By John W. Gonzalez - San Antonio Express-News The University of Texas Health Science Center on Wednesday was awarded two of the first grants from a new state entity created by Texas voters to accelerate ... More

January 21, 2010
EZ-IO System Helps Gain Essential Vascular Access in Critically Injured Patients    (SAN ANTONIO) – Vidacare Corporation has joined forces with Partners In Health (PIH) to provide ... More

January 21, 2010
KCI Donates its Signature V.A.C.® Therapy and Other Wound Care Products; In-Kind Donation Valued at More Than $2 Million SAN ANTONIO—JAN. 19, 2010—Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (NYSE: KCI) today ... More

January 21, 2010
European Journal of Clinical & Medical Oncology Publishes Meta-Analysis of Phase II and Phase III Trials Supporting Tavocept’s Potential to Increase Lung Cancer Survival San Antonio, TX, ... More

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