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May 12, 2025
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 […]
May 5, 2025
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, […]
April 22, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Shared By: Orith Farago SAN ANTONIO (April 16, 2025) — UT Health San Antonio’s 2025 Presidential Ambassador Scholars were officially recognized by Francisco Cigarroa, MD, senior executive vice president for health affairs and health system, during an awards ceremony at the Academic and Administration Building April 15. Since […]
April 21, 2025
Original story: Texas Public Radio By: Bonnie Petrie (April 20, 2025) — When you imagine a person who might have an eating disorder, what do they look like? Lisa Kilpela, PhD, co-director of the Center for Research to Advance Community Health at UT Health San Antonio, says there’s a stereotype. It’s called the Golden Girl […]
April 19, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Discovery of chemical endocytosis could redefine precision medicine Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (April 18, 2025) — A team of scientists, notably Zhengyu Wang, PhD, assistant professor in the department of pharmacology and the Barshop Institute, led by Hong-yu Li, PhD, professor of medicinal chemistry and chemical […]
April 15, 2025
Anya Kalenta, a final year PhD student, has published her first first-author publication. In this study, they investigated how an acute bout of treadmill running alters the skeletal muscle metabolome and lipidome in mice with hyperactive mTORC1 signaling. Anya is a PhD student in the lab of Blake Rasmussen, PhD at the Sam and Ann […]
April 14, 2025
Biology of Aging PhD student Christopher Litwin won Best Poster Presentation in the Graduate Student category at the 2025 LSOM Research Symposium. His poster title was “Protein Secretion From Liver Ex Vivo Reveals Regulation of Hepatokines by Sex and Circadian Rhythm.” Christopher is a PhD student in the lab of Kevin Koronowski, PhD. Dr. Koronowski […]
April 7, 2025
In new research supported by the San Antonio Nathan Shock Center, Yidong Bai, PhD, shows that the structure and function of mitochondria of naked mole-rats are preserved with age. The preservation of mitochondria assembly might contribute to the extreme longevity and disease resistance of these animals. Robust assembly of electron transfer chain in the brain […]
March 31, 2025
Original story: Texas Public Radio By: Bonnie Petrie (March 30, 2025) — This segment was originally broadcast on July 28, 2024. Aging is a prospect we all face. As we age, we change in body and mind in diverse ways. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the U.S. population aged 65 and over, […]
March 31, 2025
A new publication from Daniel Adekunbi, PhD, shows that aging is associated with a significant decline in mitochondrial bioenergetics in the brain in a non-human primate model of aging. This loss of energetics is associated with a similar decline in walking speed with age, highlighting a potential mechanism for increased frailty and loss of function […]
