CPRIT awards UT Health San Antonio $3.4 million to increase HPV vaccination rates in Bexar County, develop transformative technologies targeting drug-resistant cancers   SAN ANTONIO (June 2, 2025) ­— The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) received $3,395,970 in new academic research and prevention awards as part of […]

Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (June 5, 2025) ­— More than 600 teams from 58 countries around the world entered the XPRIZE Healthspan competition. That number has now been whittled down to 100 semifinalists and 40 top award-winning milestone teams, including a team at The University of […]

Dr. Sijia He is the recipient of the 2025 William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation grant.  Her proposal, “Interrogating the innate immune-myelin communication in Alzheimer’s disease,” earned top scores in a two-stage internal peer review for scientific merit and impact. Dr. He is an Assistant Professor/Research with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for […]

Dr. Kevin Koronowski is the recipient of a three-year American Heart Association Career Development Award for his project titled “Lifting the Circadian Brake on PPAR Alpha.”  Dr. Koronowski is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and an investigator with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.

David Gius, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, received CPRIT’s individual investigator research award for clinical trials in the amount of $1,390,420 to fund a four-year, phase 2 clinical trial for women with estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer. UT Health Newsroom Press Release CPRIT Press Release

Masahiro Morita, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and a researcher with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at UT Health San Antonio, received a $900,000 individual investigator award from CPRIT to study how obesity increases the risk of liver cancer by investigating the mechanisms by which […]

Dr. Shangang Zhao has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Presidential Excellence Award in the category of Junior Research Scholar.  Established in 1985, the Presidential Awards recognize exemplary performance by individuals who consistently excel in their positions and demonstrate a strong commitment to the mission and core values of UT Health San Antonio. […]

Dr. Jun Zhang has received an R03 grant from the National Institutes of Health for the project titled “Pathological cardiolipin remodeling links mitochondrial dysfunction to inflammaging.”  Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor/Research with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Pharmacology.

Dr. Xianlin Han and Dr. Lizhen Chen have received an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their project titled “The role of sulfatide in the development of tauopathy in the context of ADRD.”  They are multi-PIs on the award, along with Dr. Jeffrey Dupree, an associate professor with Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. […]