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September 30, 2022
Dr. Nicolas 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. Effect of acute TLR4 inhibition on insulin resistance in human subjects Hanyu Liang, Nattapol Sathavarodom, Claudia Colmenares, Jonathan Gelfond, Sara E Espinoza, […]
September 26, 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 status regulates autophagy in thymic stromal cells and promotes T cell tolerance Manpreet K Semwal, Allison K Hester, Yangming Xiao, Chioma Udeaja, Sergio Cepeda, John S Verschelde 2nd, […]
July 22, 2022
Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD has been awarded a 2022 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grant for Junior Faculty for his project “Mechanisms and consequences of dramatic ceramide losses in long-lived growth hormone deficient mice.” Dr. Palavicini is an Assistant Professor/Research with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and […]
June 28, 2022
The paper is titled “Pharmacological inhibition of ALCAT1 mitigates amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by attenuating SOD1 protein aggregation” by Xueling Liu, Jun Zhang, Jie Li, Chengjie Song, 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 Sam […]
June 14, 2022
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund is awarding $1.7 million to UT Health San Antonio to support research projects conducted by promising early career researchers. The Voelcker Fund’s Young Investigator Awards, which provide each recipient with $150,000 per year over three years ($450,000), are intended to support […]
June 12, 2022
The paper is titled “In Search of the Holy Grail: Toward a Unified Hypothesis on Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Age-related Diseases” by Jun Zhang 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 Sam and Ann Barshop […]
June 9, 2022
Original Story: San Antonio Express-News By: Laura Garcia, Staff writer A professor at UT Health San Antonio is among four researchers worldwide awarded $500,000 each — part of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Oskar Fischer Prize — for their work in furthering society’s understanding what causes Alzheimer’s disease. UTSA on Wednesday announced the […]
May 13, 2022
Dr. Masahiro Morita has received a 3-year Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Award for his project titled “mRNA Translation and Mitochondrial Dynamics in Obesity-induced Liver Cancer.” 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.
May 11, 2022
Dr. Sakie Katsumura’s recent research has been highlighted in Nature Reviews Endocrinology. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Masahiro Morita, PhD, and currently tackles to provide an unprecedented strategy to treat metabolic syndrome by targeting CNOT6L deadenylase-dependent decay of mRNAs encoding secretory proteins.
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 […]