Greehey CCRI Archives
Developmental Cell: CENP-A Ubiquitylation Is Indispensable to Cell Viability
September 23, 2019Summary CENP-A is a centromere-specific histone H3 variant that epigenetically determines centromere identity, but how CENP-A is deposited at the centromere remains obscure. We previously reported that CENP-A K124 ubiquitylation, mediated by the CUL4A- …
September is Women in Medicine Month
September 19, 2019As part of the American Medical Association (AMA) “Women in Medicine Month”, we at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute – UT Health San Antonio would like to take a moment and celebrate the female faculty who have dedicated their car …
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 …
Raushan Kurmasheva, PhD to Receive Children’s Cancer Research Fund’s “Emerging Scientist Award.”
September 13, 2019“Dr. Kurmasheva and her team have received the Emerging Scientist Award by CCRF to uncover the mechanism(s) of the interaction of the two major DNA repair pathways, and discover modulators of their interface with the goal of developing a novel therapy …
PLOS Biology: Activation of the intrinsic fibroinflammatory program in adult pancreatic acinar cells triggered by Hippo signaling disruption
September 12, 2019Jun Liu , Ming Gao , Michael Nipper, Janice Deng, Francis E. Sharkey, Randy L. Johnson, Howard C. Crawford, Yidong Chen, Pei Wang Abstract Damaged acinar cells play a passive role in activating pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) via the recruitment of i …
KSAT12: Tiny fish in San Antonio lab may hold cure for rare cancer (video)
September 11, 2019Tiny, see-through fish might be the key to treating children with the rare muscle cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma. Local 13-year-old Kennedie Bailey, who just beat that cancer, saw the little zebrafish that may lead to a new treatment for other kids and preve …
UT Health San Antonio scientist continues study of children’s cancer using new grant to predict drug responses from genomic data (Chen Lab)
September 6, 2019The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism: Synonymous but Not Silent: A Synonymous VHL Variant in Exon 2 Confers Susceptibility to Familial Pheochromocytoma and von Hippel-Lindau Disease
September 1, 2019Shahida K Flores, Ziming Cheng, Angela M Jasper, Keiko Natori, Takahiro Okamoto, Akiyo Tanabe, Koro Gotoh, Hirotaka Shibata, Akihiro Sakurai, Takuya Nakai, Xiaojing Wang, Magnus Zethoven, Shiva Balachander, Yuichi Aita, William Young, Jr., Siyuan Zheng …
San Antonio Express-News: Texas’ cancer-fighting agency invests millions in San Antonio research
August 30, 2019The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, a state agency that has so far awarded $2.4 billion to various research institutions and organizations, is sending financial support to several San Antonio researchers.
UT Health SA Newsroom: UT Health scientist continues study of children’s cancer using new grant to predict drug responses from genomic data
August 28, 2019Published On: August 28, 2019 Shared by Rosanne Fohn UT Health San Antonio received more than $1 million from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas in its summer round of funding, announced Aug. 22. The largest award, $892,157, went to Yido …