UTSA Research News

San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics awards $200,000 toward COVID-19 vaccine project

April 30, 2020

The San Antonio Partnership for Precision Therapeutics has awarded $200,000 for a collaborative study to develop a novel vaccine to combat COVID-19. Within days of the local 'Stay Home, Work Safe' directive, the SAPPT organized and issued a call for proposals to combat COVID-19. After a week, 17 proposals were received and one team was selected, a consortium of scientists from the University of Texas at San Antonio, UT Health San Antonio, Southwest Research Institute and Texas Biomedical Research Institute. The Vaccine ...
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Facilities and UTSA Startup Leaptran Test Remote Metering to Track Campus Energy Consumption

April 7, 2020

APRIL 7, 2020 — The Office of Facilities at UTSA has completed a six-month pilot program with Leaptran, a UTSA startup, which offered its technology to track energy usage in a specific building on campus. Now, that ability to access data remotely has made Leaptran’s tech even more advantageous and beneficial as this critical monitoring can continue without interruption from anywhere during the COVID-19 pandemic. UTSA found that in addition to giving Facilities the ability to monitor building power performance and ...
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UTSA Preparations for Essential Research Activities

March 24, 2020

3/24/20 Dear Research Colleagues: In response to the Stay Home, Work Safe orders from Mayor Nirenberg and Judge Wolff, all non-critical on-campus laboratory research will be paused beginning at 5 PM on Wednesday, March 25 and until further notice except as described below. During this pause, only essential personnel may enter UTSA laboratories. Only essential research activities and core facilities pre-approved specifically for your laboratory by both your associate dean for research (ADR) and the VPREDKE office are permitted to continue. See below ...
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UTSA Research Preparedness & Response

March 19, 2020

The rapid evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic requires the university to accelerate its response to this unprecedented challenge. In order to protect the health and safety of our community, researchers should immediately begin preparing for all on-campus research to be restricted to essential and critical activities as early as next week. All other research activities should continue to operate remotely. All REDKE staff continue to support protocol guidance and modifications; animal and safety support; and all grant proposal and management activities. ...
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Knowledge Enterprise provides update on campus research activities

March 12, 2020

MARCH 12, 2020 — Editor’s note: The follow message was sent via email today from Vice President for Research, Economic Development and Knowledge Enterprise Bernard Arulanandam to all faculty and staff: Following up on President Eighmy’s announcement yesterday regarding operational changes, I am writing to provide some additional information regarding impact to research activities at UTSA. While only a percentage of faculty is directly involved in active research, many people across campus help sustain research activities. We are providing this update so ...
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