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🎉 UT San Antonio has launched the new NIA-funded Center for Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias (CAPAS), led by Drs. Rebeca Wong and Fernando Riosmena. The center will drive community-focused, inclusive research to advance understanding of Alzheimer’s. 🧠✨

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Researchers launch nationally recognized Center on Alzheimer’s and Aging - UT Health San Antonio
By Claire Kowalick and Amanda Cerreto The University of Texas at San Antonio has secured federal funding for a new research hub dedicated to studying Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, propell...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Join us Wed, Nov 19 @ 4pm CT for our Fall #BarshopSeminarSeries!

We’re hosting Gary Churchill, PhD (The Jackson Laboratory) presenting: “Dietary Restriction Extends Lifespan in Genetically Diverse Mice.”

📍 Barshop Institute, Room 2.2005
💻 Virtual option: Zoom

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November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🧬 Join us Wed, Nov 5 @ 4pm CT for our #BarshopSeminarSeries!

Wenjie Luo, PhD, (Weill Cornell Medicine) presents: "How Microglial Lipid Shapes Tau pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease."

📍 Barshop Institute, Rm 2.2005
💻 Zoom available

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#Alzheimers
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Join us Wed, Oct 29 @ 4pm CT for our Fall #BarshopSeminarSeries!

Amina Qutub, PhD (UTSA), presents “Innovations in AI and Their Relevancy to Longevity and Aging.”

📍 Barshop Institute, Room 2.2005
💻 Virtual option available: Zoom

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#AI #agingresearch #longevity
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🎉 Congrats to Ziying Xu on her first-authored paper in Nature Communications!

“Microglia-specific regulation of lipid metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by microglial depletion in 5xFAD mice,” reveals how brain immune cells influence fat metabolism in #Alzheimer’s. 🧠🧬

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October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Oct 15

🧬 Biology of Aging student presentations:
Xin Li and Lidia Cervantes

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom
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#BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch #AlzheimersResearch #Microbiome
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Oct 1

🧠 Erik Musiek, MD, PhD, presents: “Circadian clocks, glia, and Alzheimer’s Disease”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

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#BarshopSeminarSeries #AlzheimersResearch #AgingResearch
September 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Sept 24

🧬 Da-Zhi Wang, PhD (USF) presents: “Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Development, Function and Regeneration”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

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#BarshopSeminarSeries #AgingResearch
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
👏 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

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San Antonio Pepper Center secures $6.5M grant to advance aging research - UT Health San Antonio
The population of older Americans is expanding rapidly and is expected to double by 2060. While people are living longer than ever, many are also living with chronic health problems that impact their ...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
📢 Barshop Institute Fall Seminar – Sept 17

🧬 Agustin Ruiz, MD, PhD presents: “#Proteogenomic Analysis of Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Across the #Alzheimer’s Disease Continuum”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

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#BarshopSeminarSeries
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
📢 Join us Sept 10 for the Barshop Institute Fall Seminar Series!

🧬 Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD (OHSU) presents: “Whac-a-mole or Occam’s Razor: Understanding muscle loss in cancer cachexia”

🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom

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#BarshopSeminarSeries
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨📣Registration and abstract submission closes today at 5pm. Don't delay and register now!

2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging
📅 Oct 9–12 | 📍Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX

Theme: "Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention"

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September 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
👏 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

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Inaugural cohort completes UT-MSTAR summer research program - UT Health San Antonio
New NIH-funded program aims to grow pipeline of students in aging research across Texas A new multi-site, eight-week research program aims to engage first-year medical students interested in aging med...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📣🗓️Join us Wed, Sept 3 @ 4PM CT for our Fall Seminar Series! Jenny Hsieh, PhD, presents: "Stem cell approaches to understand acquired and genetic epilepsies."

🔗Details: bit.ly/4jjeaJw

#BarshopSeminarSeries
September 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
👏 Congrats to Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini on earning a Rising UT STAR Award! 🌟

The $150K grant will boost his research capacity at @uthealthsa.bsky.social's Barshop Institute, supporting advances in aging and longevity science. 🧬⏳

#AgingResearch #ResearchExcellence

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August 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New study from Dr. David Gius shows the keto diet affects males and females differently.

Males developed aging cell buildup and stress, while females were protected—effects in males were reversed with estrogen or antioxidants. 🧬

#Keto #AgingResearch #Healthspan

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August 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
👏 Congrats to Nisi Jiang, PhD, first author of the first national review of anti-aging compounds!

The study identified 13 promising agents, with rapamycin showing the strongest effect—extending lifespan by up to 28%. 🧬⏳

#AgingResearch #Longevity #Rapamycin

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August 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🚨📢Registration and abstract submission closes on Sept 5th. Don't delay and register now!

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📢 Registration is open for the 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging!
🗓️ Oct 9–12 | 📍 Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX

Theme: “Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention”

🔗 More info: bit.ly/3UG2bew
#Geroscience #AgingResearch #BarshopConference
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🎉 Celebrating 30 years of discovery! The San Antonio Nathan Shock Center at @uthealthsa.bsky.social has been a hub for aging research since 1995—has secured 5 more years of NIA funding! 🧬 Pioneering gerotherapeutics like rapamycin to boost lifespan & healthspan.

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Thirty years of excellence: San Antonio Nathan Shock Center a global leader in aging research - UT Health San Antonio
Aging affects all living creatures and is the greatest factor in numerous diseases. The greatest health care burdens are borne by diseases in older patients — a population expected to nearly double by...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🎉 Congrats to Laurence Maeyens for winning the AGE Poster Pitch Award at #AGE2025!

This work shows midlife castration extends lifespan more than early intervention in UM-HET3 mice—highlighting timing’s role in aging. 🧬⏳

#AgingResearch #Longevity #UMHET3

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July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Big step forward in targeting drug-resistant cancers.

Dr. Daohong Zhou at UT Health San Antonio received a $2.4M CPRIT grant to expand core labs with advanced tools like CRISPR screening and small molecule degraders—aiming to tackle the toughest pediatric and adult cancers.

🔗Link:
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CPRIT awards UT Health San Antonio $3.4 million to increase HPV vaccination rates in Bexar County, develop transformative technologies targeting drug-resistant cancers - UT Health San Antonio
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) received $3,395,970 in new academic research and prevention awards as part of the latest $98 million funding round ...
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June 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🎉 Excited to share UT Health San Antonio - Barshop Institute’s team is a Semifinalist in the $101M #XPRIZEHealthspan! Advancing low-frequency ultrasound to rejuvenate cells & boost healthspan.

#HealthyAging #Geroscience

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UT Health Newsroom: UT Health San Antonio team named XPRIZE Healthspan Semifinalist - Barshop Institute
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (June 5, 2025) ­— More than 600 teams from 58 countries around the world entered the XPRIZE He...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🎧 Listen to Dr. Lisa Kilpela, Pepper Center investigator, on Texas Public Radio as she discusses food insecurity and binge eating in older women.

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#AgingResearch #FoodInsecurity #BingeEating #HealthyAging
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June 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
📢 Registration is open for the 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging!
🗓️ Oct 9–12 | 📍 Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX

Theme: “Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention”

🔗 More info: bit.ly/3UG2bew
#Geroscience #AgingResearch #BarshopConference
May 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Join us on Wed, May 28 at 4 PM CT for our Spring Seminar Series!
Stephen Harridge, PhD, will present:
“The Biology of Human Aging: Differentiating Ageing from Inactivity”

📍 Don’t miss this insight into aging science.
🔗 More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw
#BarshopSeminarSeries
May 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM