Greehey CCRI Archives
Please welcome the Greehey CCRI summer 2021 interns
June 7, 2021*not all summer program students pictured Greehey CCRI would like to welcome the 2021 Donald G McEwen, Memorial Summer Undergraduate Research Program students. Gaby Ruban – Dr. Chen …
Emily Selig of Libich Lab, Awarded a Spot on CPRIT Training Grant
January 8, 2021Emily Selig recently earned her PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she was employing biophysical and biochemical approaches to investigate the mechanisms by which the small heat-shock proteins aB-crystallin and hea …
PIPETTE GAZETTE: George Parra (Libich Lab) Receives the Greehey Graduate Fellowship in Children’s Health
September 3, 2020George Parra, a second-year student in the Biochemical Mechanisms of Medicine discipline in the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program, has received the Greehey Graduate Fellowship in Children’s Health. The Greehey Graduate Fellowship Award in Children …
KENS5: UT Health gets a $306,000 grant to study Ewing sarcoma
September 16, 2019SAN ANTONIO — September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. One of those cancers, Ewing sarcoma, is the second most common type of bone cancer in children with only 200 diagnosed each year in the U.S. Thanks to a $306,000 grant from The St. Baldrick’s …
St. Baldrick’s Foundation awards $306,000 for Ewing sarcoma studies
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has awarded $306,000 to David Libich, PhD, of UT Health San Antonio to further his studies of the childhood cancer Ewing sarcoma. Dr. Libich, who has a background in structural biology, is an investigator with the universi …
UT Health SA Newsroom: Voelcker Fund awards $900,000 for young faculty research
June 18, 2019William L. Henrich, MD, MACP, president of UT Health San Antonio, announced that the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund is giving $900,000 to the university to support two research projects and one pilot research project, all conducted by rising you …
UT Health SA Newsroom: Greehey cancer researcher receives UT System’s Rising STARs award
April 10, 2019David Libich, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and structural biology in the Long School of Medicine and faculty member of UT Health’s Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, has received a Rising STARs Award from the UT System. The award …
YouTube: Experimental Biology TV, WebsEdgeMedicine
April 4, 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUUaz6A6Mo&t=92s “Cancers in children are rare, and the genetics and epigenetic causes are very different from those of adults. Consequently, the study of the etiology and potential therapies for these tumors requir …
PNAS: Probing initial transient oligomerization events facilitating Huntingtin fibril nucleation at atomic resolution by relaxation-based NMR
February 26, 2019Samuel 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 dom …
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters: Extensive Sampling of the Cavity of the GroEL Nanomachine by Protein Substrates Probed by Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement
June 21, 2018Marielle A Wälti 1, David S Libich 1, G Marius Clore 1 Abstract The chaperonin GroEL is an 800 kDa nanomachine comprising two heptameric rings, each of which encloses a large cavity or folding chamber. The GroEL cycle involves ATP-dependent capping of …