BioSpace: Hyundai Hope On Wheels Presents UT Health San Antonio With Hyundai Young Investigator And Scholar Hope Grant Totaling A Combined $500,000 To Support Pediatric Cancer Research (Aune & Ignatius Labs)

September 23, 2019

Hyundai Hope On Wheels® (HHOW), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported by Hyundai and its U.S. dealers, announces $500,000 Hyundai Young Investigator and Scholar Hope Grant to UT Health San Antonio to continue its long-standing fight against pediatric cancer. HHOW has committed $13.2 million to support 52 new doctor-researchers in their research for better treatment options and to improve care for children diagnosed […]

Yahoo Finance: Hyundai Hope On Wheels Presents UT Health San Antonio With Hyundai Young Investigator And Scholar Hope Grant Totaling A Combined $500,000 To Support Pediatric Cancer Research

September 23, 2019

September is Women in Medicine Month

September 19, 2019

  As part of the American Medical Association (AMA) “Women in Medicine Month”, we at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute – UT Health San Antonio would like to take a moment and celebrate the female faculty who have dedicated their careers to childhood cancer.     Christine Aguilar, MD, MPH, Faculty Associate, Greehey Children’s […]

KENS5: UT Health gets a $306,000 grant to study Ewing sarcoma

September 16, 2019

SAN ANTONIO — September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. One of those cancers, Ewing sarcoma, is the second most common type of bone cancer in children with only 200 diagnosed each year in the U.S. Thanks to a $306,000 grant from The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, UT Health San Antonio is working to find a cure […]

UT Health San Antonio scientist continues study of children’s cancer using new grant to predict drug responses from genomic data (Chen Lab)

September 6, 2019

UT Health SA Newsroom: UT Health scientist continues study of children’s cancer using new grant to predict drug responses from genomic data

August 28, 2019

Published On: August 28, 2019 Shared by Rosanne Fohn UT Health San Antonio received more than $1 million from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas in its summer round of funding, announced Aug. 22. The largest award, $892,157, went to Yidong Chen, PhD, a professor of population health sciences in the Joe R. and Teresa […]

KTXS12: UT Health San Antonio receives $500,000 to continue battle against childhood cancer (Aune & Ignatius labs)

August 24, 2019

UT Health San Antonio has half a million more reasons to continue the fight against childhood cancer.  Two doctors with the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute received grants on Tuesday worth up to $500,000.

Dr. Zhao Lai $600,000 NIH Shared Instrument grant

June 25, 2019

In March 2016, Dr. Zhao Lai was awarded $600,000 NIH Shared Instrument grant (S10 grant 1S10OD021805-01) to purchase Illumina HiSeq 3000 to upgrade the sequencing platform in GSF. Illumina HiSeq 3000/4000(3000 carries one flow cell vs HiSeq 4000 with two flow cell stations) is the latest and most efficient sequencing platform in Illumina NGS market. […]

Nature: More and more people are living for years after treatment. Researchers should look for ways to identify and ease long-term effects.

April 19, 2019

When Gregory Aune was 16, he wasn’t particularly concerned about the lasting effects of the drugs and radiation that he was given to treat his lymphoma. “I saw kids around me die, so I felt pretty fortunate,” he says. Nearly 30 years later, Aune has a slightly different perspective. He’s still deeply grateful to have […]

Journal of Virology: Adaptation of an R5 Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Encoding an HIV Clade A Envelope with or without Ablation of Adaptive Host Immunity: Differential Selection of Viral Mutants

April 17, 2019

Mingkui Zhou, Michael Humbert, Muhammad M. Mukhtar, Hanna B. Scinto, Hemant K. Vyas, Samir K. Lakhashe, Siddappa N. Byrareddy, Gregor Maurer, Swati Thorat, Joshua Owuor, Zhao Lai, Yidong Chen, Anthony Griffiths, Agnès-Laurence Chenine, Sanjeev Gumber, François Villinger, David Montefiori, Ruth M. Ruprecht ABSTRACT Simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) infection in rhesus macaques (RMs) resembles human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in humans and serves as a tool to evaluate candidate AIDS vaccines. […]