Please welcome the Greehey CCRI summer 2021 interns

June 7, 2021

                    Greehey CCRI would like to welcome the 2021 Donald G McEwen, Memorial Summer Undergraduate Research Program students. Gaby Ruban – Dr. Chen Misa Ito – Dr. Ignatius Jingsi Zhou – Dr. Kitagawa Hoang Dinh  – Dr. Libich Gabriella Quintanilla – Dr. Penalva Shresth Arya – […]


Nature Communications: Metal ions help COVID-19 virus to disguise itself (Gupta Lab)

June 2, 2021

SAN ANTONIO (June 2, 2021) — Scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Gupta Lab) and other collaborators have discovered a mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 exploits changes in metal ion concentrations to disguise itself in the body. Varying concentrations of metal ions — positively charged atoms such as magnesium, manganese, […]





Shan Qi (Gupta Lab) Receives Hibbs Award for Research Execellence

May 25, 2021

Shan Qi, a 3rd year PhD student in Dr. Yogesh Gupta’s laboratory at Greehey CCRI, received the prestigious Hibbs Award “for Research Excellence is a major award given annually to recognize exemplary achievement and research excellence to a student enrolled in Biomedical Mechanisms of Medicine (BMM).” The Hibbs prize was established by a generous endowment […]


Kathryn Crouch (Aune Lab) Among the Winners at the Robert A. Clark Frontiers of Translational Science Research Day

May 21, 2021

  The Robert Clark Frontiers of Translational Science Research Day showcases posters that illustrate completed or ongoing research projects in Translational Science.  This year, due to current gathering restrictions, the event was hosted virtually. After a day full of innovative research presentations, Kathryn Crouch from the Greehey CCRI received an award for her presentation titled “Novel […]


Current Exchange: CSHL’s COVID/SARS CoV2 Rapid Research Meeting Reports V (Gupta)

May 18, 2021

Excerpt from "CSHL's COVID/SARS CoV2 Rapid Research Meeting Reports V" Structural biology, molecular biology, and immunology As with the previous two meetings, this one was broken up into sections by topic and the first up was “Host-virus Interactions/Structure.” There were some great talks looking at which animals are likely susceptible to the virus based on [...]

NIH Grant Awarded to Collaborative Team to Eradicate Ewing Sarcoma (Aune)

May 13, 2021

Despite the breakthroughs being made in treating many cancers with less toxic, targeted, and immune-based therapies, Ewing sarcoma’s 40-year-old chemotherapy regimen remains a significant contributor to mortality and long-term cardiovascular complications adolescent and young adult cancer patients. An ongoing collaborative project initiated by the Rutledge Cancer Foundation collaborates with Qana Therapeutics, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research […]