Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery: A prospective study in severely injured patients reveals an altered gut microbiome is associated with transfusion volume

April 1, 2019

Susannah E Nicholson 1, David M Burmeister, Taylor R Johnson, Yi Zou, Zhao Lai, Shannon Scroggins, Mark DeRosa, Rachelle B Jonas, Daniel R Merrill, Caroline Zhu, Larry M Newton, Ronald M Stewart, Martin G Schwacha, Donald H Jenkins, Brian J Eastridge Abstract Background: Traumatic injury can lead to a compromised intestinal epithelial barrier and inflammation. While alterations in the gut microbiome of critically injured patients may influence clinical outcomes, the impact […]

Science Magazine: Treatments for childhood cancer can devastate lives years later. Scientists are trying to change that. (Aune Lab)

March 29, 2019

Greehey CCRI Principal Investigator, Gregory J. Aune, MD, PhD, was quoted in a recent Science Magazine article regarding the long-term effects of childhood cancer treatments.

Investigative & Clinical Urology: Microbiome diversity in carriers of fluoroquinolone resistant Escherichia coli

March 1, 2019

Michael A Liss 1 2, Robin J Leach 1 3, Elizabeth Rourke 1, Allison Sherrill 1, Teresa Johnson-Pais 1 3, Zhao Lai 4, Joseph Basler 1, James R White 5, Jan E Patterson 6 Abstract Purpose: Fluoroquinolone-resistant (FQR) Escherichia coli causes transrectal prostate biopsy infections. In order to reduce the colonization of these bacteria in carriers, we would like to understand the surrounding microbiome to determine targets for decolonization. Materials and methods: We perform an observational study to […]

Genome Research: PepQuery enables fast, accurate, and convenient proteomic validation of novel genomic alterations

March 1, 2019

Bo Wen, Xiaojing Wang, Bing Zhang Massively parallel or second-generation sequencing-based genomic studies continuously identify new genomic alterations that may lead to novel protein sequences, which are attractive candidates for disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets after proteomic validation. Integrative proteogenomic methods have been developed to use mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics data for such validation. These […]

AHA Research – Circulation Research: Abstract 112: Doxorubicin Alters Cardiac Fibroblast Phenotype

February 28, 2019

Trevi R Mancilla, and Gregory J Aune Abstract The oldest cohort of childhood cancer survivors is entering into their sixth decade. The milestone comes with the knowledge that this population is at 15 times greater risk of cardiovascular events than the general population. One factor in this is doxorubicin, a chemotherapeutic drug commonly used to treat […]

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.

PNAS: Probing initial transient oligomerization events facilitating Huntingtin fibril nucleation at atomic resolution by relaxation-based NMR

February 26, 2019

Samuel A. Kotler, Vitali Tugarinov, Thomas Schmidt, Alberto Ceccon, David S. Libich, Rodolfo Ghirlando, Charles D. Schwieters, and G. Marius Clore Abstract The N-terminal region of the huntingtin protein, encoded by exon-1, comprises an amphiphilic domain (httNT), a polyglutamine (Q n ) tract, and a proline-rich sequence. Polyglutamine expansion results in an aggregation-prone protein responsible for Huntington’s disease. Here, we study the earliest events […]

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. […]

Pharmacy Times: Chemotherapies May Have Varying Long-Term Cardiovascular Risk

February 6, 2019

By studying the outcomes of more than 28,000 long-term childhood cancer survivors in the United States and Europe, researchers found that exposure to different anthracyclines results in variable long-term cardiovascular risk.