TxBiomed Magazine

Cover Story

Texas Biomed researchers are working on vaccines, antivirals and other therapies to protect people from highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses.

BIRD FLU: A RACE AGAINST EVOLUTION

Spotlight

Biomed Briefs

Research highlights featuring work on Zika and Marburg vaccines, investigating how Ebola virus infects cells and finding where rebound HIV infection originates from.

Vision

Change is here

In two years, that overhead view of our campus will be very different; in five years, I guarantee it will be almost unrecognizable. Read the Letter from the President.

Community

New education programs expand opportunities for hands-on learning

Texas Biomed is expanding its education programs to train and inspire the next generation of scientists in partnership with Valero, H-E-B and the American Cancer Society.

Connections

San Antonio helps secure $2.5 billion national biotech hub in Texas

In a major win by local biotech industry leaders, the new federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has established one of its primary hubs in Texas.

Graphic explaining the ARPA-H Biotech Hubs Three centers form the nationwide network set up to strengthen how research translates to San Antonio/Austin Houston healthcare solutions.

Faculty News

MEET THE NEWEST FACULTY MEMBERS

Catalysts

Bringing a mathematical eye to immunology

Professor Vitaly Ganusov, Ph.D., combines math and immunology to investigate two of the world’s leading killers: malaria and tuberculosis (TB).

Catalysts

Searching for therapies in the small & unconventional

Associate Professor Shouxiong Huang, Ph.D., specializes in the small and unusual parts of the human immune system, with a singular goal propelling his research.

Catalysts

Welcome Attending Veterinarian Kathryn Shelton

Wearing many hats comes naturally to Kathryn Shelton, D.V.M., Ph.D., DACLAM. This is a strength she’ll tap into as she joins Texas Biomed and Southwest National Primate Research Center with not one, not two, but three official roles…

Catalysts

Welcome Colony Administrator Stanton Gray

Throughout his 23-year career, Stanton Gray, D.V.M., Ph.D., DACLAM, has sought to improve animal and human health as a veterinarian, colony manager and researcher.

CONGRATULATIONS

Catalysts

The Collaborator

Smita Kulkarni, Ph.D., who was promoted to Associate Professor this year, relishes the diverse opportunities for collaboration at Texas Biomed. It enables her to work on pathogens she would not otherwise…

Focus

Prospecting for pathogens in museum vaults

Bats, rodents, birds, deer and other preserved museum specimens could hold clues about the next pandemic-causing pathogen. Rather than waiting for the next pandemic to take the world by surprise, researchers at Texas Biomed are developing genetic-based tools to investigate collections and see what might be lurking.

Impact

Celebrating the new Animal Care Complex

The first major capital construction project envisioned under Texas Biomed’s 10-year Strategic Plan is complete, and plans are underway for further expansion this year.

Impact

Bold vision realized

Jamo Rubin, M.D., has led the Texas Biomed Board of Trustees through a historic time and now passes the leadership baton to H-E-B President Craig Boyan.

Gratitude

Record-breaking support

The Texas Biomedical Forum set the fundraising bar high, having made a record-breaking donation this past fall.

Profile

Meet Sandy Smith

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER SITE ENGINEER Sandy Smith doesn’t “sit and do nothing” well. “I guess I’m the type of person that if my plumbing breaks, I’ll fix it. How do I fix it? Let me go on YouTube. It’s not that I’m cheap, I just like challenges.”