Kristi Dietert won the Walter R. Nicolai Award for best graduate student presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Aging Association. Through the generosity of the Paul F. Glenn Foundation, a prize was established in 1982 in the name of Walter Nicolai, (a long-time board member of AGE who was killed in a […]

Dr. Shi’s project, “Cardiolipin Remodeling in Alzheimer’s Disease,” has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Shi is a Professor with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Pharmacology.  He is also the Joe R. and […]

Dr. Shangang Zhao has received a one year Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Pilot Award from the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund. This award will allow Dr. Zhao to further develop his project in metabolism and aging.  Dr. Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and an investigator with […]

Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Doctoral student’s research suggests difficulty of translating longevity interventions from lower species to mammals Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (April 21, 2023) — If a drug extends the life span of worms or flies, is it likely to do the same in mice? Not typically based […]

Dr. Shi’s project, “Cellular mechanisms of NLRP3 activation by ALCAT1 in diet-induced obesity,” has been awarded an R01 grant by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Shi is a Professor with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the […]

Zach Uttke is an MD/PhD student in the UT Heath San Antonio MSTP program. Zach worked as a Student Research Associate in the Frost lab prior to starting with our MSTP program and will join the Frost lab full time once he begins his PhD in the Biology of Aging program.  Zach is currently investigating […]

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 the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Chair in Research and the Associate Director of the MD/PhD Program at UT Health San Antonio. Age-dependent loss of hepatic SIRT1 enhances NLRP3 inflammasome signaling and […]

Lulu Schulz is a PhD student in the Biology of Aging discipline of the Integrated BioMedical Sciences program in the lab of Bess Frost, PhD with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.  Her research focus is on the role of Arc capsids in tauopathy.

Claira Sohn is a PhD student in the Biology of Aging discipline of the Integrated BioMedical Sciences program in the lab of Bess Frost, PhD with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.  Claira earned her undergraduate degree from Northern Arizona University where she worked to synthesize self-assembling peptides to create […]