Save the Date for TxSUS 2022!
TxSUS 2022 is coming soon. Stay in the know regarding event details!
TxMOUD Expands Portfolio of Services in FY 2022
Learn more about the expanded services and partnerships built this year.
Heroes Helpline: 24/7 confidential and judgement-free treatment for first responders and healthcare heroes in Texas
Discover how frontline heroes can receive assistance in overcoming substance use and mental health challenges.
Briana M Mason, PhD & Gregory T Collins, PhD receive a 2-year VA supplemental grant!
Learn more about their research aims that will aid those suffering from a substance use disorder.
Nora Charles, PhD, featured on WDAM News!
See Dr. Charles, former T32 trainee, discuss student mental health.
Trainee Spotlight: Alexander M Wasserman, PhD
A look at Dr. Wasserman's time in the T32 program and what's next on the horizon.
Ginsburg Laboratory receives multiple achievements across two interior laboratories!
Explore the two laboratories and see their accomplishments of 2021.
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Feeling Stressed? Worried? Recovery Texas Answers the Call
Recover Texas offers those with Substance Use Disorder an affordable way to get their life back on track.
Nora Charles, PhD, awarded grant funding for mental health services program - ACCESS
Learn more about the aim of ACCESS and the communities being served.
Various Grants Awarded to ARTT Members
Learn more about recent grants awarded at UT Health SA.
Addiction recovery will be OnDemand!
Coming online Fall 2021: UT Physicians Virtual Clinic featuring statewide virtual therapy, medication assisted treatment and case management services for Texans living with substance use disorders and/or mental health challenges. Stay tuned for more inormation.
ARTT Retreat Coming in 2022!
The ARTT Center of Excellence is planning a retreat, in 2022, for anyone working or interested in research, treatment, education, or policy on substance use disorders to share information, facilitate discussion, and promote collaboration among students, trainees, researchers, and clinicians at UTHSCSA. More information will be provided in the coming months, on the ARTT website!
Congratulations to Nikki Clauss, PhD!
Dr. Clauss, a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Lynette C Daws' laboratory, received 1st Place in the postdoctoral oral presentation competition for the Division for Behavioral Pharmacology of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)!
Congratulations to Briana M Mason, PhD!
Dr. Mason, a T32 Postdoctal Fellow in Dr. Gregory T Collins' laboratory, received 1st Place at the 18th Annual Center for Biomedical Neuroscience Retreat!
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Congratulations to David R Maguire, PhD!
Dr. Maguire, a former T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at UTHSCSA in 2011-13, has been promoted from Research Assistant Professor to Assistant Professor on Tenure Track!
Congratulations to Michelle Doyle!
Ms. Doyle, a graduate student mentored by Gregory T Collins, PhD, recently won this year's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Senior Graduate Student of the Year Award. This award recognizes a graduate student who demonstrates the best potential for research success and demonstrates sustained excellence in academics. Read more about it here.
Dr. Lisa M Cleveland and UT Health School of Nursing receive $3.8 million to build Women's Wellness Campus
The campus will be built on nearly 2.9 acres of land on San Antonio's East side and will provide a home for pregnant and parenting mothers recovering from substance use disorders to be with their children. To read the full story, visit the UT Health San Antonio website here.
Welcome Erin E Wood, PhD!
Dr. Wood started her postdoctoral fellowship, in July, working with Dr. Nathalie A Hill-Kapturczak. Get to know more about Dr. Wood through her trainee biography page on the T32 website here.
Victor M Jimenez, PhD, featured in the April 2021 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics!
Victor, a recent former post-doctoral fellow in the France lab, is featured as JPET's Highlighted Trainee Author, April 2021.This showcases emerging scientific talent in the field of pharmacology. Read the full news detail here.
Congratulations to Robert Seaman, Jr!
Him and co-director Gregory Collins, PhD, recently published a manuscript identifying that structurally related synthetic cathinones, or “bath salts,” produce MDPV-like discriminative stimulus effects with a rank-order potency. Read more about it here.
Dr. Gregory T Collins receives 2021 JH Woods Early Career Award in Behavioral Pharmacology
The distinguished ASPET honor recognizes his innovative and multi-tiered approach to understanding how individual differences, including behavioral and drug histories, impact drug-taking and drug-seeking behaviors. The award was presented at the ASPET Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2021.
Congratulations to Shawn Flynn!
He recently had his first paper published since joining the France Lab. It describes diminished antagonism of the discriminative stimulus effects of carfentanil relative to those of other opioids. Read more about it in The Pipette Gazette!
A study on biased agonism by Drs. Kelly A Berg and William P Clarke is one of the top 10 most-viewed papers of the year in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology!
Making sense of pharmacology: inverse agonism and functional selectivity explores two concepts in contemporary pharmacology that entail major implications for the use of drugs in medicine and research and impact new drug development. Read the full report in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Congratulations to Vanessa Minervini!
Vanessa's application was chosen to be the ASPET nomination to represent the division as the Young Investigator Corresponding Member for the Executive Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR).