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 […]




UT Health Newsroom: Dr. Boris Zelle earns 2024 Diversity Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

April 2, 2024

Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Has led several studies revealing barriers to care for the underserved Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (April 1, 2024) ­— Boris A. Zelle, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, professor, vice-chair of research and chief of orthopaedic trauma in the Department of Orthopaedics at The University of Texas Health […]


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.




The Washington Post: How a cheap, generic drug became a darling of longevity enthusiasts

March 15, 2024

Barshop Institute director, Dr. Elena Volpi, was interviewed in a recent rapamycin article by The Washington Post.  The article also mentions the original 2009 rapamycin study funded by The National Institute on Aging Interventions Testing Program (ITP), which includes a test site at the Barshop Institute led by Dr. Randy Strong. Read the story here: […]


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 […]





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. […]

Bess Frost


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!




UT Health Newsroom: 143 Health Science Center faculty past and present recognized on Scopus citation metrics list

November 29, 2023

Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom 143 Health Science Center faculty past and present recognized on Scopus citation metrics list Six Barshop-affiliated faculty are included on this list of 143 faculty members from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Robert Clark, Immunology Xianlin Han, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Paul Hasty, […]