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Adam Kosti (Penalva Lab) to Receive Barbara Bowman Award for Second Consecutive Year

May 25, 2021

                      Congratulations to Adam Kosti from the Luiz O.F. Penalva, PhD Lab on being awarded the Barbara Bowman Endowment In Cellular & Structural Biology Award for the second year …


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 enro …


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 …


Leibert Pub: Zebrafish Tumor Graft Transplantation to Grow Tumors In Vivo That Engraft Poorly as Single Cell Suspensions (Ignatius Lab)

May 21, 2021

Amanda Lipsitt, Nicole R. Hensch, Rodrigo Moreno-Campos, Kunal Baxi, Jiangfei Chen, Anil K. Challa, Eleanor Y. Chen, and Myron S. Ignatius Abstract Angiosarcoma is a clinically aggressive tumor with a high rate of mortality. It can arise in vascular or …


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/ …


Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to childhood cancer, contribute to the understanding of its causes, and accelerate the translation of knowledge into novel therapies. Through the discovery, development, and dissemination of new scientific knowledge, Greehey CCRI strives to have a national and global impact on childhood cancer. Our mission consists of three key areas: research, clinical, and education.

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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 complicati …


Yogesh Gupta,PhD., Invited to Present at Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory, COVID-19 Workshop

May 13, 2021

Recently, Greehey CCRI principal investigator, Yogesh Gupta, PhD., was included as an invited speaker with prominent scientists from academia (Ian Wilson, Pamela Bjorkman, and others) and industry (Pfizer and Moderna) at a COVID-19 workshop organized b …


BMC Bioinformatics: CancerSiamese: one-shot learning for predicting primary and metastatic tumor types unseen during model training (Chen Lab)

May 13, 2021

Milad Mostavi, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Yidong Chen & Yufei Huang Abstract Background The state-of-the-art deep learning-based cancer type prediction can only predict cancer types whose samples are available during the training where the sample size is commo …


Journal of Clinical Medicine: Recent Developments in Nanomedicine for Pediatric Cancer (Kurmasheva)

April 30, 2021

by  Shicheng Yang 1, Mia Wallach 2 , Apurva Krishna 3, Raushan Kurmasheva 4,5,*,†  and Srinivas Sridhar 1,3,6,*,† Abstract Cancer is the second biggest cause of death in children in the US. With the development of chemotherapy, there has been a substan …


International Journal of Molecular Sciences: A Comprehensive Analysis into the Therapeutic Application of Natural Products as SIRT6 Modulators in Alzheimer’s Disease, Aging, Cancer, Inflammation, and Diabetes (Rao Lab)

April 30, 2021

Raushanara Akter 1, Afrina Afrose 1, Md Rashidur Rahman 2, Rakhi Chowdhury 1, Saif Shahriar Rahman Nirzhor 3, Rubayat Islam Khan 4, Md Tanvir Kabir 1 ABSTRACT Natural products have long been used as drugs to treat a wide array of human diseases. The le …