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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. […]
UT Health SA Newsroom: Greehey cancer researcher receives UT System’s Rising STARs award
April 10, 2019
David Libich, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and structural biology in the Long School of Medicine and faculty member of UT Health’s Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, has received a Rising STARs Award from the UT System. The award for early-career investigators comes with a $250,000 grant. Dr. Libich, who began work here in 2017, […]
Nature: Study cancer survivors
April 9, 2019
More and more people are living for years after treatment. Researchers should look for ways to identify and ease long-term effects. 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 […]
UT Health SA Newsroom: Greehey researcher receives UT System’s Rising STARs award
February 26, 2019
Siyuan Zheng, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Long School of Medicine, has received a Rising STARs Award from the UT System. The award for early-career investigators comes with a $250,000 grant.
San Antonio Business Journal: SA gets small share of more than $90M in state cancer research money
February 22, 2019
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded 54 new academic research, prevention and product development grants totaling nearly $96 million. San Antonio’s cut is $3 million. All three Alamo City grants will support research at UT Health San Antonio. They include a pair of $900,000 awards and one for $1.2 million. Dr. Yuzuru […]
UT Health Newsroom: UT Health San Antonio researchers awarded $3 million for cancer studies
February 22, 2019
Ewing sarcoma research Yuzuru Shiio, MD, PhD, of the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio, was awarded $1.2 million to further studies of Ewing sarcoma, a pediatric bone and soft tissue cancer. The median age of Ewing sarcoma patients is 15 years, and more than half of patients are adolescents. Dr. […]