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April 14, 2022
Dr. Sakie Katsumura has received the American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. 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.
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
