Research team awarded $200,000 to develop treatment for multi-organ failure due to sepsis SAN ANTONIO — Feb. 4, 2020 — Leaders of the newly-established San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics (SA PPT) have awarded the partnership’s first research grant. A seven-person team researching sepsis-induced organ failure will receive $200,000 in funding over two years. The award’s purpose is to advance research and breakthroughs in precision therapeutics, which is the development of drug therapies for specific populations based on genetics, lifestyle and ...
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SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 28, 2020) – The City of San Antonio (CoSA), Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are aligning efforts to form the R&D League, a new research and development program for the City. “The R&D League is a welcome and far-sighted approach that will help San Antonio adapt to our fast-changing world,” said Mayor Ron Nirenberg. “This public/private cooperation is another example of our city’s most ...
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Focused on driving San Antonio’s knowledge economy, UTSA’s Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development and Knowledge Enterprise closed out the year with economic growth increasing, research activity on campus thriving and research expenditures for fiscal year 2019 reaching an all-time high. Whether it’s conceptualizing housing on the moon, finding cybersecurity breaches in lightbulbs, bolstering water conservation methodologies, launching a program to work within the national intelligence community, or advancing cancer prevention on the border, UTSA faculty members and ...
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Dec. 13, 2019 — The University of Texas at San Antonio is embarking on an executive search to secure innovative leadership for the new School of Data Science in downtown San Antonio. The UTSA School of Data Science will be a nationally recognized center of excellence in its field. The SDS will be the nexus of advanced data activities both within the state of Texas and globally by attracting leading technology pioneers to serve as faculty providing real world research and ...
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The University of Texas at San Antonio recognizes the importance of international collaborations to solving complex research problems and achieving innovative discoveries. Working with and welcoming students and scholars from around the globe are essential to UTSA’s success in fulfilling our mission. International collaboration benefits individual researchers, their teams and students, resulting in broader perspectives, new approaches to problems, and expanded professional networks. These outcomes, in turn, increase competiveness and global reputation. The national attention to research security requires us to ...
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