Greehey CCRI Archives
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, 2021Raushanara 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 …
Postdoctoral Fellow Opening (Rao Lab)
January 1, 2021The Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute (Greehey CCRI) at the UT Health Science Center – San Antonio is looking for an outstanding postdoctoral fellow to work in the laboratory of Dr. Manjeet Rao, PhD. We are seeking a self-motivated postdocto …
Yahoo Finance: Greehey CCRI Deputy Director, Manjeet Rao, PhD to Present at the 2021 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)
December 8, 2020This year’s conference will feature an oral presentation by Manjeet Rao, PhD, about a possible FDA-approved anti-depressant being studied that may block breast cancer growth by preventing breast cancer cells from repairing themselves. Dr. Rao has been …
PIPETTE GAZETTE: CSA Shoutout to Graduating Student Pooja Yadav (Rao Lab)
August 11, 2020Congratulations to one of our CSA graduate students Pooja Yadav, M.S. (Cancer Biology discipline) who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on June 25!
Future Focus: San Antonio lands one of its largest Cancer Grants to Bring in New Talent
February 27, 2020CPRIT officials said this is one of the largest amounts San Antonio institutions have collectively received from the institute in a single funding round since it was established by Texas voters in 2007. CPRIT CEO Wayne Roberts said it’s also further in …
Manjeet Rao, PhD, Awarded NCI, R01 Grant to Test Efficacy of Novel Drug
Dr. Manjeet Rao, Greehey CCRI Deputy Director (interim), was recently awarded a grant from National Cancer Institute ($2.1 million) to test the therapeutic efficacy of a novel drug that can inhibit the function of a protein that is highly expressed in …
Greehey CCRI Faculty Awarded $1.2M CPRIT Grant to Support Osteosarcoma Research
Written by: Will Sansom An award of $1.2 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) went to Greehey CCRI Deputy Director and principal investigator Manjeet Rao, PhD, professor of cell systems and anatomy, for studies of …
Molecular Carcinogenesis: PELP1 signaling contributes to medulloblastoma progression by regulating the NF‐κB pathway
December 24, 2019Yiliao Luo Mengxing Li Uday P. Pratap Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli Junhao Liu Prabhakar P. Venkata Kristin A. Altwegg Bridgitte E. Palacios Xiaonan Li Yihong Chen Manjeet K. Rao Andrew J. Brenner Gangadhara R. Sareddy Ratna K. Vadlamud Abstract Medullobl …
MISSION MAGAZINE: Tiny molecule has big effect in childhood brain cancer (Rao Lab)
October 22, 2019Sometimes small things make the biggest difference. A new study has found that a molecule thousands of times smaller than a gene is able to kill medulloblastoma, the most common childhood brain cancer. This tiny molecule, named MiR-584-5p, is quite eff …