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Team eyes gene therapy for children paralyzed by rare mutations
October 20, 2023
Turning on the gene in mice restores the animals’ motor functions The 50 families stretch from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the United States and China. Each family has a child who is paralyzed from a mutation in a single gene named Contactin-Associated Protein 1 (Cntnap1). The children are locked inside their bodies, […]
Team eyes gene therapy for children paralyzed by rare mutations
October 20, 2023
Associate professor awarded $3.4M to study male factors in recurrent pregnancy loss
October 20, 2023
Winifred Mak, MD, PhD, associate professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has received the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
UT Health San Antonio receives NIH award to expand groundbreaking research capabilities
September 1, 2023
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio) received a grant from the National Institutes of Health in excess of $590,000 that will be used to purchase a NanoWizard® 5 Atomic Force Microscope (NW5 AFM), the first of its class to be installed in San Antonio. […]
UT Health San Antonio associate professor committed to advancing the health of South Texas through Alzheimer’s research
September 1, 2023
Long fascinated by nature, Claudia Satizabal, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Population Science at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio) Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, aspired to become a geneticist when she was younger. However, such a career did not […]
UT Health San Antonio announces inaugural Synergy grant awards for early-stage applied research
August 15, 2023
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio) Office of Technology Commercialization and the Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced the awardees for the inaugural Synergy Gap Fund. Earlier this year, the Office of Technology Commercialization and the Office of the Vice President for […]
La Frontera: Mitochondria in Health and Disease
August 7, 2023
UT Health San Antonio responds to coming tsunami of dementia and other brain health challenges
May 1, 2023
This spring, UT Health San Antonio announced it will build a $100 million Center for Brain Health to enhance its Biggs Institute and the Department of Neurology of its Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine.
UT Health San Antonio Professor France leads novel drug discovery research
March 7, 2023
Charles P. France, PhD, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry, professor of pharmacology and professor of psychiatry in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), recently received a $4.12 million award from the U.S. […]
New hope for treating the toughest cancers
December 20, 2022
The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio — South Texas’ only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center — is putting a decades-old antidepressant drug to new use treating breast cancers that don’t respond to existing therapies. Research in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio provided […]