UTSA Research News

Bizios to receive BioMedSA Award for health care, bioscience innovation

July 3, 2020

BioMedSA, the nonprofit corporation founded in 2005 to promote and grow San Antonio’s leading industry—health care and bioscience—will present its 2020 BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience to Rena Bizios, the Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in UTSA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. Bizios is a globally recognized educator and researcher who has made pioneering contributions to biomedical engineering curricula as well as groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of cell-material interactions at the tissue/implant interface with applications in implant biomaterials, tissue ...
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Air Force Research Laboratory leverages the UTSA’s National Security Collaboration Center for research and innovation

June 29, 2020

Air Force Research Laboratory leverages the UTSA’s National Security Collaboration Center for research and innovation June 29, 2020 – The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Information Directorate of Rome, NY recently entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). This CRADA will allow for quick exchanges of research in support of AFRL’s mission to lead discovery, development and delivery of warfighting technologies for air, space and cyberspace forces. The goal of the collaboration, ...
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SURF, San Antonio’s military health conference, returns for sixth year

June 23, 2020

JUNE 23, 2020 — The San Antonio Military Health System, consisting of the 59th Medical Wing and Brooke Army Medical Center, along with UT Health San Antonio and UTSA are hosting the sixth annual SAMHS and Universities Research Forum (SURF) on June 25, highlighting the latest research and discoveries of trainees, faculty, staff and students working to improve health outcomes and readiness. “While world circumstances have dictated many changes, SURF returns as usual, given its necessity and popularity within the region. ...
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UTSA to resume campus research activity, doctoral training

May 27, 2020

MAY 27, 2020 — UTSA announced today that it will reopen its campuses to researchers and graduate students beginning Monday, June 1, so that they can resume research and doctoral training opportunities that cannot be completed remotely. The researchers’ return to campus is the first step in a carefully planned strategy guided by UTSA’s Public Health Task Force and its Research Excellence and Doctoral Education Recovery tactical team, appointed earlier this month by President Taylor Eighmy. Researchers and graduate students will be ...
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UTSA Knowledge Enterprise awards funding for transdisciplinary research

May 19, 2020

The Office of the Vice President for Research, Economic Development, and Knowledge Enterprise and Academic Affairs have awarded the FY 2021 Transdisciplinary Teams research awards. Two teams, representing four colleges and five departments collectively, were selected and will be awarded $50,000 each. UTSA launched the Transdisciplinary Teams Program last year in response to the growing complexity of research and faculty needs. T2 supports faculty to engage in scholarly research activities that foster transdisciplinary collaboration by assembling teams of researchers from different ...
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