Accolades

Students Win Big at International Synthetic Biology Competition

Undergraduate students at UT Austin are recognized for their work which could save bats from a condition that is often deadly and dangerous.

Accolades

Dr. Maria Croyle Receives Best Paper Award from the University Co-op Research Excellence Awards

Dr. Maria Croyle, LCID Faculty Member and Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Glaxo Wellcome Professor in the College of Pharmacy, recently received the Best Research...

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UT News

Texas Biologics to Bolster Research in Therapeutics

A new University of Texas at Austin initiative will focus primarily on biologic research and development.

Announcements

UT Austin Leads in New Summary of Top “Degrees of the Future”

A new report releases what the nation’s best degrees of the future are.

Features

Three Generations of Retrovirologists

LCID Assistant Director Dr. Jaquelin Dudley and her mentee, Dr. Wendy Kaichun Xu, along with Dr. Dudley's mentor, Dr. Harold Varmus of Weil Cornell Medicine...

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Podcast

Frog Pandemic

Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.

Accolades

McLellan Honored for Contributions to COVID-19 Vaccines

Jason McLellan, UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, has received the 2021 Shirley Bird Perry Longhorn Citizenship Award

Podcast

Do Sick Animals Socially Distance?

According to a new review in the journal Science, when highly social animals — such as ants, mice and bats — get sick, their social interactions change, too.

Research

Coronavirus Mutation May Have Made It More Contagious

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.