Congratulations to Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD on his SNPRC Pilot Award!

May 4, 2022

Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD has been awarded an SNPRC Pilot Award for his project “Preventing ceramide accumulation as a novel clinically relevant treatment for metabolic syndrome: proof of concept pilot study in a non-human primate model.”  Dr. Palavicini is an Assistant Professor/Research with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and […]




Congratulations to Roger Shi, PhD on his publication in Molecular Metabolism!

May 2, 2022

The paper is titled “De novo labeling and trafficking of individual lipid species in live cells” by Jun Zhang, Jia Nie, Haoran Sun, Jie Li, John-Paul Andersen, and Yuguang Shi.  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 […]





UT Health Newsroom: Team discovers novel root cause of tau-induced neurodegeneration

April 14, 2022

Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom By Will Sansom SAN ANTONIO (April 13, 2022) — Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) today reported the discovery of a novel mechanism by which pathological forms of tau protein cause neurons to die. Alzheimer’s disease and chronic […]




Congratulations to Gabbe Zuniga on her first author publication in Alzheimer’s & Dementia!

April 13, 2022

Congratulations to Gabbe Zuniga and the Frost lab on their publication!  Gabbe is an MD/PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Bess Frost with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Tau-induced deficits in nonsense-mediated mRNA decay contribute to neurodegeneration Gabrielle Zuniga, Simon Levy, Paulino Ramirez, Jasmine De Mange, Elias Gonzalez, […]





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 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 […]