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September 24, 2019
UT Health working to fight children’s cancer with Hyundai Hope on Wheels grant To help in the fight against pediatric cancer, Hyundai Hope on Wheels presented two grants totaling $500,000 to UT Health San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO — UT Health San Antonio is fighting children’s cancer in a partnership with Hyundai Hope on Wheels. To […]
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 […]
September 23, 2019
Summary CENP-A is a centromere-specific histone H3 variant that epigenetically determines centromere identity, but how CENP-A is deposited at the centromere remains obscure. We previously reported that CENP-A K124 ubiquitylation, mediated by the CUL4A-RBX1-COPS8 complex, is essential for CENP-A deposition at the centromere. However, a recent report stated that CENP-A K124R mutants show no defects […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 13, 2019
“Dr. Kurmasheva and her team have received the Emerging Scientist Award by CCRF to uncover the mechanism(s) of the interaction of the two major DNA repair pathways, and discover modulators of their interface with the goal of developing a novel therapy for Ewing sarcoma.” For more information about the CCRF and this award, CLICK […]
September 12, 2019
Jun Liu , Ming Gao , Michael Nipper, Janice Deng, Francis E. Sharkey, Randy L. Johnson, Howard C. Crawford, Yidong Chen, Pei Wang Abstract Damaged acinar cells play a passive role in activating pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) via the recruitment of immune cells that subsequently activate PSCs. However, whether acinar cells directly contribute to PSC activation is […]
September 11, 2019
Tiny, see-through fish might be the key to treating children with the rare muscle cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma. Local 13-year-old Kennedie Bailey, who just beat that cancer, saw the little zebrafish that may lead to a new treatment for other kids and prevent tumors from returning.