UT Health SA Physiology and Pharmacology Program

Learn more about our Physiology and Pharmacology Discipline at UT Health SA where discovery awaits. youtube.com/watch?v=x2VMeL…

Congratulations to George on matching into Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia! 🎉

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ Our Department’s Research Symposium is happening April 9, 2026, a day to celebrate innovation, discovery, and collaboration. Don’t miss it!

Celebrating Dominic and Lauren for reaching this incredible milestone! 🎓👏 Fall graduates, we’re so proud of you!

Huge congratulations to Lauren Honan on successfully passing her dissertation defense! We are proud of her accomplishment and excited for all that’s ahead. 🎓👏

Thankful, grateful, and very full at this year’s Thanksgiving potluck 🧡🦃🍽️

GSBS White Coat Ceremony 2025 Congratulations to all the students on this incredible milestone!

Congratulations to Drew Pratt on being awarded $200,000 by the Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative (TRC4) for his proposal, “Investigating the Gut Microbiome as a Driver of Trauma-Induced Complications and a Therapeutic Agent.”👏👏

Congratulations to Lauren Honan for having been selected by ASPET as a member of the Washington Fellows Program!!

Congratulations to Dominic Arris on the successful defense of his dissertation titled “Targeting Replication Stress in Synovial Sarcoma Using ATR Degraders.”

Congratulations to all our SPUR 2025 participants! 🎉👏 Last week, your hard work and dedication shine during your presentations. We’re so proud of everything you accomplished! #SPUR2025 #StudentResearch #UTHealthSA

🎉 Huge congrats to Lauren Honan, winner of the 2025 Robles Leadership Award! 🏆 #Leadership #RoblesAward #GSBS #StudentSuccess

Join our Virtual Graduate Student Panel Discussion to hear from current grad students about their journey, grad school life, and the admissions process! 📅 Open to undergrads, techs & RAs ✅ Register to receive the Zoom link!

👏 Congrats to Dr. Blake Rasmussen, Chair of the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology, and Dr. Elena Volpi! Their @UTHealthSA team is a semifinalist in the global #XPRIZE Healthspan competition. news.uthscsa.edu/ut-health-san-…

We are excited to welcome this year’s NINDS R25 Summer Physiology Undergraduate Researcher (SPUR) Program cohort, and we look forward to hosting these students over the summer!

Congratulations to Dr. Sijia He on being awarded the 2025 William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award! 🎉To learn more about Dr. He's research and publications, visit her faculty profile:lsom.uthscsa.edu/physiology/tea… #UTHealth

🎉 Congrats to our 2025 CIP Research Symposium Award Winners! 🎉 We’re proud to recognize the achievements of our students, postdocs, and technical staff. Special shoutout to Lacey Sell & Lauren Honan for receiving this year’s John M. Johnson Distinguished Student Award! 🏆

👏 Big congrats to Annie Smelter for winning 1st Place at the STX-MSTP Retreat Poster Session! 🏆 Amazing work! #STXMSTP #UTHealthSA

Congratulations to Annie Smelter on her publication in the American Society for Microbiology journal, titled “Successful Clearance of Persistent Staphylococcus aureus Pneumonia with High-Dose Continuous Infusion Cefazolin.” #full-text" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">researchgate.net/publication/39…

Exciting news! The SPUR summer research program is now accepting applications. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in biomedical research. lsom.uthscsa.edu/physiology/edu…

Student Spotlight: Meet Drew Pratt, a third-year student making strides in academia. He presented microbiome research at MHSRS '24, received a T32 fellowship, was published as the first author in J Trauma Surg, and co-authored stroke research. 🎉