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Board of Trustees Outstanding Teacher Award, and the
People Living Through Cancer Caring Award. He has
served as Chair of Scientific Affairs for the American
Society of Hematology and as their congressional and
media representative.
A seasoned investigator, Dr. Hromas has published
over 160 scholarly research papers, has for two decades
been continuously funded by the National Institutes of
Health and has chaired several NIH and American Can-
cer Society study sections. His laboratory has isolated
and characterized several novel DNA repair proteins that
play crucial roles in both cancer chemotherapy resistance
and in HIV integration. He currently leads a public-pri-
vate drug development consortium that is creating new
drugs and testing them for effectiveness in treating can-
cers resistant to chemotherapy. Celebrating the Mays Family Foundation’s gift Tuesday are (seated) Peggy and
Lowry Mays, (standing, left to right) Bill Johnson, Mays Cancer Center Director
Prior to his work at the University of Florida, Dr.
Ruben Mesa, M.D., UT Health San Antonio President William L. Henrich, M.D.,
Hromas served as Chief of Hematology-Oncology and MACP, Sen. José Menédez and UT System Chancellor William McRaven.
Deputy Director of the Cancer Center at the University
of New Mexico, assisting that institution in achieving its
designation as a National Cancer Institute Cancer Cen-
ter. Before that, he was Deputy Director of the Indiana
University Cancer Center, also assisting it in obtaining
its first NCI designation. Dr. Hromas has been elected
to such honorific scientific organizations as the Ameri-
can Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of
Professors of Medicine, the American Clinical and Cli-
matologic Association and the Association of American
Physicians.
It is my strong belief that the Long School of Medi-
cine stands at a crossroads of many exciting opportuni-
ties, and my sense is that Dr. Hromas, with the help of
our talented faculty, staff and students, and many at UT
Health and University Health System, will enjoy the
brightest and most exciting of futures ahead.
I hope that you will join me in providing the warmest
of welcomes to Dr. Hromas, his wife Shari, and their
three adult children to UT Health San Antonio.

Sincerely, UT Health San Antonio President William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP (left) thanks
William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP Lowry and Peggy Mays for the Mays Family Foundation’s gifts to the UT Health
San Antonio Cancer Center. The UT System renamed the cancer center as the
President and Professor of Medicine Mays Cancer Center in their honor.

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