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May 7, 2021
Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc., a drug discovery and development company advancing novel neuroprotective therapeutics for treating neurodegenerative brain injuries, is mentioned in this MedCity News story. Dr. James Lechleiter, Cell Systems and Anatomy, is the inventor and patent holder on technology licensed to Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. Read the story.
April 29, 2021
Dr. Peter Fox, director of the Research Imaging Institute, is quoted in this Science Codex story about a published study in the journal Communications Biology that utilized BrainMap, a database of more than 20,000 published functional and structural neuroimaging experiments. Dr. Fox and co-authors compared the connectivity patterns of large-scale functional networks used in normal […]
April 16, 2021
Dr. Sudha Seshadri, professor of neurology and director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, explains the link between neurodegenerative diseases and high cortisol levels in this Discover Magazine article. The story mentions that her research published in the journal Neurology, has shown that those with higher morning cortisol levels are more […]
April 12, 2021
Dr. Kevin Bieniek, Pathology, Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, explains that if a patient is younger, that doesn’t always mean they will have a less severe Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) case and this disease is linked to repetitive trauma that can come in a number of different shapes and forms. Read and […]
March 15, 2021
The San Antonio Express-News story is about a medical device called VP.S Encore that was invented by Leon Bunegin, Department of Anesthesiology, for human heart preservation and transport. Read the story.
February 22, 2021
Understanding the mechanism of activation of a protein called SAMHD1 could be a step forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
