Texas Public Radio: Science & Medicine: Sabotaging the molecular engines of some pediatric cancers (Gupta)
February 24, 2025Ewing sarcoma and rhabdomyosarcoma are cancers that overwhelmingly impact children. They’re soft tissue cancers that are thankfully rare because treatment options are limited, according to pediatric cancer researcher Yogesh Gupta, PhD, an associate pro …
Kurmasheva Lab is Featured in CPRIT Annual Report
February 6, 2025Doctors diagnose nearly 1,200 Texans under 20 years of age with cancer every year. Despite intensive genotoxic therapy, nearly 20% of these children will die from their cancer. Those who survive face a lifetime of potential toxicities due to their ther …
Greehey CCRI Deputy Director, Manjeet Rao, PhD, to receive $100K”The Cure Starts Now” Grant.
December 5, 2024Our study has the potential to provide potent and safe alternatives for treating pediatric brain tumor patients. In addition, the drugs identified in our study will improve the efficacy of radiation therapy. Therefore, medulloblastoma pat …
In Memoriam: Sharon B. Murphy, MD (1943–2023)
December 15, 2023We share with great sadness that the inaugural director of the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute has passed. Below is the obituary originally published in the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology on November 18, 2023. She will …
OpenAccessGovernment.org: Current and future therapy for BRAF-mutant pediatric glioma
November 20, 2023Professor Peter J. Houghton from the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute discusses new approaches to pediatric cancer treatment, specifically for BRAF-mutant pediatric glioma. Low-grade glioma (LGG) is the most frequently diagnosed brain tumor …
UT Health San Antonio gears up to fight childhood cancer, thanks to Hyundai Hope on Wheels® grants
September 26, 2023Posted on September 26, 2023 at 10:40 am.Shared by Eileen Teves Contacts: Monica Taylor, 210-450-8970, taylorm1@uthscsa.edu, Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – Children with cancer were joined by their families as they dipped …
Open Access Government: Developing novel therapies for childhood cancers (Houghton)
September 19, 2023Dr Peter J Houghton from Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute discusses the obstacles in developing new treatments for childhood cancers and new approaches in preclinical testing. In my previous article for Open Access Government, I focused on …
Texas Public Radio: “Fighting childhood cancer in San Antonio” (Aune)
September 8, 2023September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of this devastating disease and to support the children and families who are affected by it. Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children under the age o …
Dr. Gupta to Present at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Eukaryotic mRNA Processing, August 22-26, 2023
August 2, 2023Click on image below for full agenda _________________________________________________________ Since 2004, UT Health San Antonio, Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute’s (Greehey CCRI) mission has been to advance scientific knowledge relevant to …
Panneerdoss Subbarayalu, PhD, to receive NIH, NCI R21 Grant, “Targeting the RNA Modifying Enzyme ALKBH5 in Medulloblastoma
June 5, 2023Project Title: Targeting the RNA modifying enzyme ALKBH5 in Medulloblastoma Principal Investigator: Panneerdoss Subbarayalu Co-Investigators: Manjeet Rao, PhD, Andrew Brenner, MD, PhD., Peter Houghton, PhD. Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health …
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