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August 12, 2025
Dr. Yogesh Gupta, Ph.D. Graduate Mentor of the Year Award Recipient Dr. Robert Svatek, M.D., M.S.C.I. Graduate Mentor of the Year Award Recipient We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Yogesh Gupta, Ph.D., and Dr. Robert Svatek, M.D., M.S.C.I., are the recipients of this year's Graduate Mentor of the Year Award. This honor recognizes exceptional [...]
July 19, 2024
Kruthi Suvarna Panneerselvam Jayabal Xiuye Ma Hu Wang Yidong Chen Susan T. Weintraub Xianlin Han Peter J. Houghton Yuzuru Shiio 8 Highlights Ewing sarcoma depends on secreted SMPD1, a ceramide-generating enzyme, and ceramide GPR64 responds to ceramide and mediates critical growth signaling in Ewing sarcoma Ceramide induces the cleavage of the C-terminal intracellular domain [...]March 14, 2024
Breaking News San Antonio Report: UT Health San Antonio President William Henrich has died (Back row, Middle) Dr. Henrich Originally posted, San Antonio Report 3/14/24 Dr. William L. Henrich, the president of UT Health San Antonio, has died, the school confirmed Thursday. Henrich helmed one of the state’s top health schools since 2009, leading UT [...]March 8, 2024
Posted initially on UT Health San Antonio Newsroom on March 7, 2024 at 6:44 am. Shared by Steven Lee Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu Content contributed by Juanita Alvarez-Hernandez SAN ANTONIO, March 7, 2024 – The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has secured approximately $16.4 million in funding from the Cancer Prevention [...]November 1, 2021
Mengxing Li, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Bindu Santhamma, Uday P. Pratap, Yiliao Luo, Junhao Liu, Kristin A. Altwegg, Weiwei Tang, Zexuan Liu, Xiaonan Li, Behnam Ebrahimi, Hui Yan, Yi Zou, Swapna Konda, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Zhenming Xu, Yidong Chen, Manjeet K. Rao, Andrew J. Brenner, Virginia G. Kaklamani, Rajeshwar R. Tekmal, Gulzar Ahmed, Ganesh V. Raj, Klaus [...]October 27, 2021
Marieke Burleson, Janice J. Deng, Tai Qin, Thu Minh Duong, Yuqian Yan, Xiang Gu, Debodipta Das, Acarizia Easley, Michael A. Liss, P. Renee Yew, Roble Bedolla, Addanki Pratap Kumar, Tim Hui-Ming Huang, Yi Zou, Yidong Chen, Chun-Liang Chen, Haojie Huang, Lu-Zhe Sun and Thomas G. Boyer Abstract Although the Sonic hedgehog (SHH) signaling pathway has been implicated in promoting malignant phenotypes of prostate cancer, details on how it is activated and exerts its oncogenic role during prostate cancer development and progression are less clear. Here, we show that GLI3, a key SHH pathway [...]October 13, 2021
Courtney N. Johnson1, David S. Libich1 Abstract Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered regions within proteins make up a large and functionally significant part of the human proteome. The highly flexible nature of these sequences allows them to form weak, long-range, and transient interactions with diverse biomolecular partners. Specific yet low-affinity interactions promote promiscuous binding [...]July 29, 2021
Dr. Yogesh Gupta was awarded a 5-year $3.0 million R01 NIH/NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) grant to support his SARS-CoV-2 and RNA methylation work. ABSTRACT The massive global pandemic with high morbidity and mortality makes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) one of the deadliest viruses in recent history. It is especially noteworthy for hijacking the normal operations of […]
June 29, 2021
Olga Rechkoblit, Robert E. Johnson, Yogesh K. Gupta, Louise Prakash, Satya Prakash & Aneel K. Aggarwal Abstract PrimPol is a human DNA polymerase-primase that localizes to mitochondria and nucleus and bypasses the major oxidative lesion 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (oxoG) via translesion synthesis, in a mostly error-free manner. We present structures of PrimPol insertion complexes with a DNA template-primer and correct dCTP or erroneous […]