The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Boyer, Thomas G
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INST OF CHILD HEALTH AND HU
Collaborating Institutions
UnivChicago
Uterine fibroids (UFs; leiomyomas) are the most important benign neoplastic threat to women's healthworldwide, but disproportionately affect women of color, particularly African American (AA) women, who have athreefold higher incidence rate and relative risk of UFs than Caucasian (CC) women. While the underlyingcause for this risk disparity is not fully understood, recent studies implicate hypovitaminosis D as a majorcontributor.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Ruparel, Shivani B.
Funded by
NIH-DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH
Numerous studies have indicated that pain is the top ranked symptom in head and neck cancer (HNC)patients. However, available treatments are limited and associated with severe side effects addingsubstantially to the burden of having cancer. Thus, there is a critical need for novel analgesics.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Kaklamani, Virginia G
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is a five day international symposium thatprovides state-of-the-art information on translational research in breast cancer both for basicscientists and clinicians who work directly with patients.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Sun, Luzhe
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
This competing renewal application requests a second five-year support by the Ruth Kirschstein NationalResearch Service Award (T32) for our ?Cancer Biology Training Program? based at the University of TexasHealth Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), a Hispanic-Serving Institution.
