Greehey CCRI News & Events Archive
Zebra fish help UT Health researcher find treatments for childhood cancers
August 22, 2019Kennedie and Zebrafish Fight Cancer Together – In-Depth Expert Interview
August 22, 2019
St. Baldrick’s Foundation awards $306,000 for Ewing sarcoma studies
The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has awarded $306,000 to David Libich, Ph.D., 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 univer …
Paws for Cure: Courageous Warriors: Cancer Patients’ Perspectives
August 18, 2019Paws for a Cure Research Symposium Over 200 Pediatric oncologists, veterinary oncologists, translational research scientists join together to share leading-edge approaches to accelerate the development of new and better medicines for the treatment of c …
SHOCK: Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Alters the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in a Time-Dependent Manner
August 1, 2019Nicholson, Susannah E.∗; Watts, Lora T.†; Burmeister, David M.‡; Merrill, Daniel∗; Scroggins, Shannon∗; Zou, Yi§; Lai, Zhao§; Grandhi, Ramesh∗; Lewis, Aaron M.∗; Newton, Larry M.∗; Eastridge, Brian J.∗; Schwacha, Martin G.∗,‡ Abstract The microbiome is …
The mRNA Metabolism in Human Disease: The diverse roles of RNA-binding proteins in glioma development
July 25, 2019Mitzli X. Velasco, Adam Kosti, Luiz O. F. Penalva, Greco Hernández Abstract Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression is fundamental for all forms of life, as it critically contributes to the composition and quantity of a cell’s proteome. Thes …
UT Health SA Newsroom: Surprising finding using zebrafish model explains how recurring cancer may resist treatment
July 21, 2019UT Health San Antonio researchers are learning how stem cell biology causes 30 percent of children who have a rare muscle cancer to relapse and not respond to treatment. To do this, the lab of Myron Ignatius, Ph.D., at UT Health’s Greehey Children’s Ca …
Hepatology Communications: Posttranscriptional Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Nonreceptor Type 23 by Staphylococcal Nuclease and Tudor Domain Containing 1: Implications for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
July 15, 2019Nidhi Jariwala, Rachel G. Mendoza, Dawn Garcia, Zhao Lai, Mark A. Subler, Jolene J. Windle, Nitai D. Mukhopadhyay, Paul B. Fisher, Yidong Chen, Devanand Sarkar Abstract Oncoprotein staphylococcal nuclease and tudor domain containing 1 (SND1) regulates …
Dr. Zhao Lai $600,000 NIH Shared Instrument grant
June 25, 2019In March 2016, Dr. Zhao Lai was awarded $600,000 NIH Shared Instrument grant (S10 grant 1S10OD021805-01) to purchase Illumina HiSeq 3000 to upgrade the sequencing platform in GSF. Illumina HiSeq 3000/4000(3000 carries one flow cell vs HiSeq 4000 with t …
Pediatric Blood & Cancer: Insights into pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma research: Challenges and goals
June 21, 2019Marielle E Yohe 1, Christine M Heske 1, Elizabeth Stewart 2, Peter C Adamson 3, Nabil Ahmed 4, Cristina R Antonescu 5, Eleanor Chen 6, Natalie Collins 7, Alan Ehrlich 8, Rene L Galindo 9, Berkley E Gryder 1, Heidi Hahn 10, Sharon Hammond 11, Mark E Hat …