More than one out of three people have pre-diabetes, characterized by abnormal blood sugar levels not yet in the diabetes range – and yet associated with significant increases in eye, kidney and neuropathic diseases, and risk of cardiovascular death.
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Researchers hope to bring MRI biomarker to dementia risk stratification in patient care, clinical trials A ribbon of brain tissue called cortical gray matter grows thinner in people who go on to develop dementia, and this appears to be an accurate biomarker of the disease five to 10 years before symptoms appear, researchers from The […]
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Min Kyu Kim, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio), recently received a $100,000 Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award from […]
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Justin Leung, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio), has received a Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) $500,000 award from The University of Texas Board […]
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Leasing for the medical office building is open to applicants now The Rock at La Cantera today announced it will lease space to UT Health San Antonio in a medical office building to be built on the Spurs performance campus. The building is being developed by Lincoln Property Company and is expected to break ground […]
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Oleg Klykov, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio), is the recipient of a $100,000 UT System Rising STARs award. Klykov plans to spend the funds on a cryo-confocal microscope. “Thanks to the efforts […]
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Ching-Kang Jason Chen, PhD, from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio), was recently awarded a $500,000 UT System Faculty Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention (STARs) award by the UT System Board of Regents. Chen, a professor in both the Departments of Molecular Medicine and […]
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Shangang Zhao, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), received a UT System Rising STARs (Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention) award in the amount […]
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The act of swallowing is deceptively complex, a symphony of physiology that relies on the split-second, seamless coordination of 26 muscles and nine cranial nerves. The ability to swallow is essential for eating and drinking, and yet about 20 million adults in the U.S. experience a swallowing disorder, also known as dysphagia. Some people’s symptoms […]
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COVID-19’s long-term effects on cognition in older adults will be studied for five years thanks to a $32 million federal grant awarded to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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