Sam & Ann Barshop Institute
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Understand the #biologyofaging, discover therapies to treat & cure diseases of #aging, train future scientists #geroscience, promote public awareness of aging.
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https://barshopinstitute.uthscsa.edu/ 22-01-2021 17:35:44
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Barshop Institute director, Dr. Elena Volpi, was interviewed in a recent article by The Washington Post. The article mentions the original 2009 rapamycin study funded by The National Institute on Aging (NIA) ITP, which includes a site at the Barshop Institute led by Dr. Randy Strong.
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Excited to share the the work led by Dennis Minton showing that the common marmoset, a small non-human primate, is a highly translatable model of human age-related knee #osteoarthritis .
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Interested in #genomics , #retrotransposons , structural variation, DNA methylation, dark loci, brain #aging or #Alzheimer ’s disease? Check out our new Oxford Nanopore DNA sequencing-based analysis of the aged human brain with and without #tau pathology.
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📢 UTMB Pepper Center Scholar Dr. Murton, in partnership with Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini from the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at the University of Texas Health San Antonio, has secured a $100,000 grant from the Older American Independence Center The Pepper OAIC Coordinating Center👏
2023 was a big year for scientific advances in Immunity & Neurodegeneration. Join the ISTAART Immunity and Neurodegeneration PIA on January 23rd to hear all about it! Featuring moderation by Hopp Lab PhD candidate Caitlyn Fastenau. Register here: alz.org/YearInReview
Join us Wed. Jan 10th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Anna Krichevsky, PhD presents: 'Non-coding #RNA regulators of brain pathologies: From brain #tumors to #Alzheimer ’s disease.'
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Breakthroughs in aging research at Sam & Ann Barshop Institute are pushing the field of geroscience forward. Learn how investigators are gaining an understanding of why getting older is the biggest risk factor for so many chronic diseases. magazines.uthscsa.edu/schools/2023/1… The University of Texas System
Congratulations, Shangang Zhao, PhD, from the Div. of Endocrinology in Long School of Medicine & Sam & Ann Barshop Institute, who recently received a $100K The University of Texas System Rising STARs award. Learn how he plans to use the funds to gain insights into metabolic and aging questions. bitly.ws/37Yzb