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October 30, 2023
About 283 million people worldwide suffer from alcohol use disorder, a debilitating health challenge for which limited therapeutic options are available. The cost to society is estimated at greater than $2 trillion annually.
October 20, 2023
Turning on the gene in mice restores the animals’ motor functions The 50 families stretch from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to the United States and China. Each family has a child who is paralyzed from a mutation in a single gene named Contactin-Associated Protein 1 (Cntnap1). The children are locked inside their bodies, […]
October 20, 2023
Afaf Saliba Jaafar knows firsthand the importance of improving the quality of life for those suffering from challenging medical conditions. Her 12-year-old son Brandon Jaafar has severe autism. “The discovery of therapeutics is indeed a lengthy and complex process,” she said. “Families with loved ones suffering from a certain disease often feel a sense of […]
October 20, 2023
Winifred Mak, MD, PhD, associate professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has received the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
October 16, 2023
The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio will host the third annual San Antonio Liver Cancer Symposium on October 20 and 21 at the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country. The two-day event will bring together health care professionals from around the world to discuss new research and developments in treating liver cancer. The […]
October 6, 2023
Three decades after discoveries linking mutations in the BRCA1 gene to breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility, research led by Mays Cancer Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has pinpointed the molecular mechanism by which a large portion of these mutations cause cancers in women. The […]
