Greehey CCRI Archives
Greehey CCRI’s Genomic Sequencing Facility to Receive $600,000 NIH Grant to upgrade genomic sequencing capabilities (Lai Lab).
June 15, 2021Dr. Zhao Lai, Director of the Genomic Sequencing Facility (GSF) at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute (Greehey CCRI) at UT Health San Antonio (UTHSA), has been awarded a $600,000 NIH grant to help purchase a new Illumina NovaSeq 6000. Thi …
Aging Cell: Chloride channel accessory 1 integrates chloride channel activity and mTORC1 in aging-related kidney injury (Chen Lab)
June 12, 2021Hak Joo Lee, Andrew Donati, Denis Feliers, Yuyang Sun, Yanli Ding, Muniswamy Madesh, Adam B. Salmon, Yuji Ikeno, Corinna Ross, Christopher L. O’Connor, Wenjun Ju, Markus Bitzer, Yidong Chen, Goutam Ghosh Choudhury, Brij B. Singh, Kumar Sharma, Balakunt …
Texas Public Radio: San Antonio Scientists Uncover One Way The COVID-19 Virus Hides From The Immune System (Gupta)
June 8, 2021Texas Public Radio | By Bonnie Petrie Published June 7, 2021 at 3:47 PM CDT San Antonio scientists have uncovered one of the disguises used by SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — to hide from the immune system. They are metal ions that everyo …
Texas Standard: We’ve been living with COVID-19 for a long, hard while now. (Gupta + collaborators)
June 7, 2021Texas Standard Interview: “We’ve been living with COVID-19 for a long, hard while now. But we’re continuing to learn about it: what some Texas researchers say the virus does to hide in your body.” Click on the image below to …
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 …
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics: International consensus on minimum preclinical testing requirements for the development of innovative therapies for children and adolescents with cancer (Houghton)
June 4, 2021Gilles Vassal, Peter J Houghton, Stefan M Pfister, Malcolm A. Smith, Huib N Caron, Xiao-Nan Li, David J Shields, Olaf Witt, Jan J Molenaar, Sara Colombetti, Julia Schuler, and Lou F Stancato Abstract Cancer remains the leading cause of disease-related …
Nature Communications: Metal ions help COVID-19 virus to disguise itself (Gupta Lab)
June 2, 2021SAN ANTONIO (June 2, 2021) — Scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Gupta Lab) and other collaborators have discovered a mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 exploits changes in metal ion concentrations to disguise itsel …
Shaimar R. González Morales, MS (Pertsemlidis Lab) 2021 Dissertation Ford Foundation Fellowship Award
May 26, 2021Congratulations to Shaimar R. González Morales, MS, a graduate student in the lab of Alexander Pertsemlidis, PhD was just awarded a 2021 Dissertation Ford Foundation Fellowship Award, administered …
UT Health San Antonio holds first all-school commencement
May 25, 2021For the first time in its 53-year history, UT Health San Antonio celebrated a combined, all-school commencement May 22 at the Alamodome.
Adam Kosti (Penalva Lab) to Receive Barbara Bowman Award for Second Consecutive Year
May 25, 2021Congratulations 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 …