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August 27, 2026
Dr. Xiaojing Wang is the recipient of an NIH award for her project titled “Integrating long-read and short-read RNA sequencing to uncover transcriptomic complexity in healthy and diseased hearts.” This project will build an atlas of alternative splicing and isoform diversity in heart failure by integrating long- and short-read RNA sequencing across dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), […]
March 19, 2026
Original story: Texas Public Radio By: David Martin Davies (March 17, 2026) — At UT Health San Antonio’s Sam and Ann Barshop Institute, researchers are preparing a major new test of an old scientific ambition: whether medicines already on the market can help delay the biological decline that comes with aging. The study, called VITAL-H, […]
March 13, 2026
Original story: ScienceInsider ARPA-H will “build the train tracks” for first large clinical studies of aging interventions By: Mitch Leslie A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 391, Issue 6790. (09 MAR 2026) — Aging is the unindicted coconspirator in many of the diseases that can make our later years miserable. But not […]
February 25, 2026
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (February 24, 2026) Positioning The University of Texas at San Antonio as a national anchor for aging and longevity science, its Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies will receive up to $38 million in federal funding […]
February 18, 2026
Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini and Dr. Kevin Koronowski are the recipients of an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant Program award for their project titled “Gene-Environment Synergy: Circadian and Metabolic Triggers in MAPT-GR Mice.” Dr. Palavicini is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology and an investigator with the Sam and Ann Barshop […]
December 15, 2025
Kristi Dietert, PhD, has received an F32 Fellowship grant from the NIA for her project titled “Circadian reprogramming in cellular senescence.” Dr. Dietert is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Kevin Koronowski, PhD, at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.
December 4, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom By Claire Kowalick SAN ANTONIO (December 3, 2025) A University of Texas at San Antonio scientist has been awarded a junior faculty grant from the American Federation for Aging Research, or AFAR. Sijia He, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology in the Joe […]
November 19, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom By Claire Kowalick and Amanda Cerreto SAN ANTONIO (November 18, 2025) The University of Texas at San Antonio has secured federal funding for a new research hub dedicated to studying Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, propelling the university into the ranks of leading research institutions in the United […]