Congratulations to Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD and Kevin Koronowski, PhD on their Owens Foundation Award!

April 5, 2024

Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini and Dr. Kevin Koronowski are the recipients of the 2024 William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award. The two-year, $200,000 project is titled “Modeling late-onset Alzheimer’s via gene-environment interactions”.  Dr. Palavicini and Dr. Koronowski have been named Multiple Principle Investigators on the project. Dr. Palavicini is an assistant professor in […]

Congratulations to Shangang Zhao, PhD on his R01 grant!

March 18, 2024

Dr. Zhao’s project, “Paracrine effects of leptin in regulating visceral fat expansion,” has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and an investigator with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.

Congratulations to Mengwei Zang, MD, PhD on her R01 grant!

March 1, 2024

Dr. Zang’s project, “Deciphering RNA Splicing Control of Lipid Metabolism and Alcoholic Liver Injury,” has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.  Dr. Zang is a Professor with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Molecular Medicine.  She is also the […]

Congratulations to Roger Shi, PhD on his publication in Free Radical Biology and Medicine!

February 13, 2024

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 Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. An upstream open reading frame (5′-uORF) links oxidative stress to translational control of ALCAT1 through phosphorylation of eIF2α Jun Zhang […]

Congratulations to Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD on his selection to participate in the NIA/AGS conference!

January 18, 2024

Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini was selected to participate as a “Rising Star” for the NIA/AGS R13 Bench-to-Bedside Conference Series on “Stress Tests and Biomarkers of Resilience,” which takes place on March 4-5, 2024. He also received a travel scholarship to attend. Dr. Palavicini is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes […]

Texas Public Radio: Science & Medicine

December 15, 2023

Bess Frost, PhD, associate professor in the Barshop Institute, talks with Texas Public Radio about her work on jumping genes and Alzheimer’s Disease. Original Story: Texas Public Radio Science & Medicine: Alzheimer’s and the inflammatory trigger. By Bonnie Petrie A UT Health Science Center San Antonio researcher has discovered something really interesting about Alzheimer’s disease. […]

Congratulations to the 2023 Ward Award Winners!

December 15, 2023

Congratulations to our 2023 Joe and Bettie Ward Award winners for excellence in the basic biology of aging. Nisi Jiang (right) is our 2023 pre-doctoral awardee and Daniel Adekunbi, PhD (left) is our 2023 post-doctoral awardee. Great work!