Inaugural cohort completes UT-MSTAR summer research program

September 3, 2025

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 medicine. The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center received National Institutes […]

UT System STARs award fuels Alzheimer’s and brain aging research at UT San Antonio Health Science Center

September 2, 2025

  Juan Pablo Palavicini, PhD, from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) Health Science Center, received a $150,000 University of Texas System Rising STARs (Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention) award to fuel research into the mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging. Palavicini, an assistant professor in the Department of […]