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Congratulations to Sakie Katsumura, DDS, PhD on her JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship award!
April 12, 2022
Dr. Sakie Katsumura has received the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Masahiro Morita, PhD, and currently investigating the molecular mechanism underlying how the balance between food intake and energy expenditure is maintained.
Congratulations to Nicolas Musi, MD on his 2022 Presidential Excellence Award!
April 11, 2022
Dr. Nicolas Musi has been named the Distinguished Research Scholar for the 2022 Presidential Excellence Awards. Dr. Musi is a Professor in the Division of Diabetes, Department of Medicine, Long School of Medicine and the Director of the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Full story below: Congratulations to the 2022 […]
UT Health Newsroom: Boosting liver mRNAs curbs appetite, body weight in obese mice
April 6, 2022
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom By Will Sansom SAN ANTONIO (April 5, 2022) — In a breakthrough discovery, scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) today reported that inhibiting a liver enzyme in obese mice decreased the rodents’ appetite, increased energy expenditure in adipose […]
Congratulations to Sakie Katsumura, DDS, PhD and Masahiro Morita, PhD on their publication in Cell Metabolism!
April 6, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Sakie Katsumura and Dr. Masahiro Morita on their publication in Cell Metabolism. Dr. Morita is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Dr. Katsumura is a postdoctoral fellow in the Morita lab. Deadenylase-dependent mRNA decay of GDF15 and […]
Congratulations to biology of aging graduate student Kevin Thyne on his publication!
March 29, 2022
The paper is titled “Metabolic benefits of methionine restriction in adult mice do not require functional methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA)” by Kevin M. Thyne and Adam B. Salmon and will be published in an upcoming issue of Scientific Reports. Kevin Thyne is a graduate student in the laboratory of Adam Salmon, PhD. Metabolic benefits […]
Congratulations to Kevin Koronowski, PhD on his UT Rising STARs Award!
March 14, 2022
Kevin Koronowski, PhD has been awarded a $250,000 UT Rising STARs award. The grant is for the purchase of equipment for newly recruited junior faculty. Dr. Koronowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology in the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and the Sam and Ann […]
Congratulations to Jun Zhang, PhD on his Barth Syndrome Foundation award!
March 11, 2022
Dr. Jun Zhang’s project “ALCAT1 as a Novel Target for the Treatment of Cardiomyopathy in Barth Syndrome” has been accepted and fully funded for a two-year period by the Barth Syndrome Foundation. Dr. Zhang is an Instructor/Research in the lab of Dr. Yuguang Shi with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging […]
Congratulations to Manpreet Semwal, PhD on her first co-author publication in Cell Reports!
February 23, 2022
Dr. Semwal is an Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Nicolas Musi with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Redox regulation of age-associated defects in generation and maintenance of T cell self-tolerance and immunity to foreign antigens Allison K. Hester, Manpreet K. Semwal, Sergio Cepeda, Yangming Xiao, Meghan […]
Congratulations to Masahiro Morita, PhD on his CPRIT award!
February 22, 2022
Dr. Masahiro Morita has received a $1.05 million CPRIT award for his project titled “Organelle communication during transition from fatty liver to hepatocellular carcinoma.” Dr. Morita is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and an investigator with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Read more in the […]
Congratulations to Jun Zhang, PhD and the Shi Lab on their publication in Autophagy!
January 7, 2022
The paper is titled “Restoration of Mitophagy Ameliorates Cardiomyopathy in Barth Syndrome” by Jun Zhang, Xueling Liu, Jia Nie, and Yuguang Shi. Dr. Zhang is an Instructor/Research in the lab of Dr. Yuguang Shi with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Pharmacology. Abstract: Barth syndrome (BTHS) […]