Laurence Maeyens, a PhD student in Biology of Aging, won the Poster Pitch Award, along with a cash prize, at the 2025 American Aging Association meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. His winning poster, titled “Timing of castration modulates its life-extending effect in genetically heterogeneous mice: castration at midlife is more effective than at earlier ages”, highlights […]

CPRIT awards UT Health San Antonio $3.4 million to increase HPV vaccination rates in Bexar County, develop transformative technologies targeting drug-resistant cancers   SAN ANTONIO (June 2, 2025) ­— The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) received $3,395,970 in new academic research and prevention awards as part of […]

Original story: Texas Public Radio By: Bonnie Petrie (June 15, 2025) ­— As we age, our immune systems age too. They can start sending off false alarms and attacking the body’s healthy cells, while becoming less responsive to actual threats. Ann Griffith, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular […]

Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (June 5, 2025) ­— More than 600 teams from 58 countries around the world entered the XPRIZE Healthspan competition. That number has now been whittled down to 100 semifinalists and 40 top award-winning milestone teams, including a team at The University of […]

A review from Biology of Aging PhD student Christopher Litwin addresses the role of the liver in regulating circadian rhythm and metabolism.  Christopher is a PhD student in the lab of Kevin Koronowski, PhD. Dr. Koronowski is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and a Principal Investigator with the Sam […]

A new study from Barshop Investigators Ellen Kraig, PhD, and Dean Kellogg, Jr, MD, PhD, examines targeting the biology of aging with rapamycin to treat Alzheimer’s disease in a pilot clinical trial.  Dr. Kraig is a Professor in the Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy.  Dr. Kellogg is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, […]

Erik Marchant, a third year PhD student, has published his first paper from his dissertation. Erik used low-frequency ultrasound in old mice with insulin resistance and diabetes and discovered many interesting transcriptomic changes in skeletal muscle that reduce inflammation and alter immune cell function. Erik is a PhD student in the lab of Blake Rasmussen, […]

Dr. Sijia He is the recipient of the 2025 William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation grant.  Her proposal, “Interrogating the innate immune-myelin communication in Alzheimer’s disease,” earned top scores in a two-stage internal peer review for scientific merit and impact. Dr. He is an Assistant Professor/Research with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for […]

Sean Kilroe, PhD, has published his first paper as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Blake Rasmussen, PhD.  Dr. Kilroe used a multi-omics approach to outline which metabolic pathways are impacted in human skeletal muscle in response to physical inactivity.  Dr. Rasmussen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology, […]