UT Health SA Newsroom: Health Science Center pediatric oncologist appointed to national advocacy board

September 22, 2014

The National Cancer Institute has appointed a University of Texas Health Science Center pediatric hematologist-oncologist to its NCI Council of Research Advocates. On Friday, the White House held a closed briefing on pediatric cancer for childhood cancer advocates. During the keynote address, NCI Director Dr. Harold Varmus outlined the NCI commitment to pediatric cancer and […]

St. Baldrick’s: UT Health Science Center Pediatric Cancer Researcher Receives Grant in Groundbreaking Work for Childhood Cancer Survivors

August 13, 2014

UT Health Science Center Pediatric Cancer Researcher Receives Grant in Groundbreaking Work for Childhood Cancer Survivors A pediatric hematologist-oncologist from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has been awarded a grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to continue his groundbreaking work into the long-term problems that lifesaving chemotherapy can cause in […]

Science Daily: Improved screening means new targets for pediatric neuroblastoma therapies

March 2, 2014

Neuroblastoma is one of the most common and lethal types of childhood cancers. In a paper recently published, a researcher unveils an improved screening technique that shows the important role of microRNAs in regulating neuroblastoma development, pointing to new therapeutic possibilities. Neuroblastomas, which account for 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths, happen when some cells […]

The New Phytologist: Transcriptome divergence between introduced and native populations of Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense

April 13, 2013

Alessia Guggisberg 1, Zhao Lai, Jie Huang, Loren H Rieseberg Abstract Introduced plants may quickly evolve new adaptive traits upon their introduction. Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense – Cardueae, Asteraceae) is one of the worst invasive weeds worldwide. The goal of this study is to compare gene expression profiles of native (European) and introduced (North American) populations of this species, […]

Gene News: Capitalizing on miRNA Research

July 15, 2012

Aberrant expression of microRNA (miRNA) in human cancers is a common phenomenon. miRNAs regulate many tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes, therefore acting as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes themselves to directly regulate cancer cell survival and proliferation. In tumor cells, inhibiting miRNAs that are overexpressed, and restoring intracellular levels of those that are lost or […]