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Congratulations to Shangang Zhao, PhD on his R01 grant!
March 18, 2024
Dr. Zhao’s project, “Paracrine effects of leptin in regulating visceral fat expansion,” has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and an investigator with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.
The Washington Post: How a cheap, generic drug became a darling of longevity enthusiasts
March 15, 2024
Barshop Institute director, Dr. Elena Volpi, was interviewed in a recent rapamycin article by The Washington Post. The article also mentions the original 2009 rapamycin study funded by The National Institute on Aging Interventions Testing Program (ITP), which includes a test site at the Barshop Institute led by Dr. Randy Strong. Read the story here: […]
Congratulations to Mengwei Zang, MD, PhD on her R01 grant!
March 1, 2024
Dr. Zang’s project, “Deciphering RNA Splicing Control of Lipid Metabolism and Alcoholic Liver Injury,” has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Zang is a Professor with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Molecular Medicine. She is also the […]
Congratulations to Roger Shi, PhD on his publication in Free Radical Biology and Medicine!
February 13, 2024
Dr. Shi is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Distinguished Chair in Metabolic Biology and a Professor with the Department of Pharmacology and the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. An upstream open reading frame (5′-uORF) links oxidative stress to translational control of ALCAT1 through phosphorylation of eIF2α Jun Zhang […]
Congratulations to Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD on his selection to participate in the NIA/AGS conference!
January 18, 2024
Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini was selected to participate as a “Rising Star” for the NIA/AGS R13 Bench-to-Bedside Conference Series on “Stress Tests and Biomarkers of Resilience,” which takes place on March 4-5, 2024. He also received a travel scholarship to attend. Dr. Palavicini is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes […]
Texas Public Radio: Science & Medicine
December 15, 2023
Bess Frost, PhD, associate professor in the Barshop Institute, talks with Texas Public Radio about her work on jumping genes and Alzheimer’s Disease. Original Story: Texas Public Radio Science & Medicine: Alzheimer’s and the inflammatory trigger. By Bonnie Petrie A UT Health Science Center San Antonio researcher has discovered something really interesting about Alzheimer’s disease. […]
Congratulations to the 2023 Ward Award Winners!
December 15, 2023
Congratulations to our 2023 Joe and Bettie Ward Award winners for excellence in the basic biology of aging. Nisi Jiang (right) is our 2023 pre-doctoral awardee and Daniel Adekunbi, PhD (left) is our 2023 post-doctoral awardee. Great work!
UT Health Newsroom: 143 Health Science Center faculty past and present recognized on Scopus citation metrics list
November 29, 2023
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom 143 Health Science Center faculty past and present recognized on Scopus citation metrics list Six Barshop-affiliated faculty are included on this list of 143 faculty members from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Robert Clark, Immunology Xianlin Han, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Paul Hasty, […]
Congratulations to Shangang Zhao, PhD on his first-author publication in Science Translation Medicine!
November 27, 2023
Dr. Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and an investigator with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Hyperleptinemia contributes to antipsychotic drug-associated obesity and metabolic disorders Shangang Zhao, Qian Lin, Wei Xiong, Li Li, Leon Straub, Dinghong Zhang, Rizaldy Zapata, Qingzhang Zhu, Xue-Nan […]
Congratulations to Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD on his Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center Award!
November 22, 2023
Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini has received a Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) Coordinating Center award for $100,000. The multi-center pilot project is titled “Inhibition of ceramide synthesis: a viable strategy to reverse metabolic determinants of sarcopenic obesity”. Dr. Palavicini is named the principal investigator on the pilot award and will be working with co-principal […]