👏 Big news from @uthealthsa.bsky.social ! The Claude D. Pepper Center secured a $6.5M NIH grant to expand aging research—adding a new Molecular Phenotyping Core and strengthening efforts to help older adults maintain independence in South Texas. 🧬⏳ #AgingResearch #PepperCenter 👉 bit.ly/46kSHdj

👏 The first cohort of the NIH-funded UT-MSTAR program is complete! 🎉 18 med students from across Texas spent the summer at @uthealthsa.bsky.social gaining hands-on research and clinical experience in aging & geriatrics. 🧬👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ #AgingResearch #FuturePhysicians bit.ly/45Zjrjp

📢🗓️Save the Date! The 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging will take place Oct 9-12, 2025 in Bandera, Texas. bit.ly/3UG2bew

A new study from Barshop investigators Sijia He, Shangang Zhao and Xianlin Han outlines the importance of innate immunity in the brain in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congratulations to Barshop investigators Masahiro Morita, PhD and David Gius, MD, PhD, who received #CPRIT awards to accelerate cancer research and launch a novel clinical trial.

Dr. Xianlin Han spoke recently on ASBMB Breakthroughs, a monthly webinar series highlighting research from ASBMB journals. Unsheathing the role of myelin lipids in Alzheimer’s disease www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

New publication from the lab in GeroScience. Resistance exercise does some nice things to muscle in older men including reducing markers of stress, inflammation and cellular senescence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Is there an alternative to senolytics to remove senescent cells? Take a look at our new publication in Aging Cell where we collaborated with the late Mike Sheetz lab to Rejuvenate Senescent Cells with low frequency ultrasound. t.co/Ts704MWIqZ

Join us Wed. Feb 26th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. William J. Evans, PhD presents: "#Sarcopenia: New Insights for a Unified Definition." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Congratulations to Barshop Institute's Core Faculty Daohong Zhou, MD, and his team for their new Nature Aging paper!

Good resources from AAMC to explain what the NIH "indirect" costs are and why they are important for biomedical research www.aamc.org/what-we-do/m...

Join us Wed. Feb 12th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Kimberley Bruce, PhD presents: "Targeting #Microglial #Metabolism in #Neurodegenerative Disease." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Congratulations to Shangang Zhao, PhD on his UT Health San Antonio Presidential Excellence Award! Dr. Zhao has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Presidential Excellence Award in the category of Junior Research Scholar. bit.ly/4hIUmxm

UT-MSTAR applications are open, the deadline is Feb 21st at 5 pm CST. This 8-week, multi-site, NIH-sponsored program is open to first-year medical students interested in aging research and in good academic standing. bit.ly/4gqLADq

The main paper of the D-CARE was just published in JAMA! We found no differences between health-system based and community-based dementia care interventions. Requirements of the new Medicare GUIDE model paying for comprehensive dementia care and caregiver support can be met with either intervention.