UT Health San Antonio launches clinical trial to study rapamycin and healthy aging

March 25, 2026

  Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu Content provided by Claire Kowalick SAN ANTONIO, March 25, 2026 – UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is launching a multi-phase clinical study to better understand how the drug rapamycin may promote healthy aging. Funded by the National […]




UT San Antonio advances in national Blue Ridge rankings amid transformative year

March 10, 2026

Contact: Eileen Teves, 210-450-7239, tevese@uthscsa.edu Content provided by Claire Kowalick SAN ANTONIO, March 10, 2026 – In a year defined by transformation, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) has emerged as a unified academic powerhouse, bringing together world-class research, clinical care and education under one banner. That momentum is now reflected […]





Barshop Institute to receive up to $38 million from ARPA-H, anchoring UT San Antonio as a national leader in aging and healthy longevity science

February 24, 2026

Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 24, 2026 – Positioning The University of Texas at San Antonio as a national anchor for aging and longevity science, its Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies will receive up to $38 million in federal funding for the first nationwide clinical study […]

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UT Health San Antonio researcher earns grant to study how the brain’s immune cells might actually contribute to Alzheimer’s

February 20, 2026

Cure Alzheimer’s Fund award aimed at better understanding microglia’s role Contact: Steven Lee, (210) 450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 20, 2026 – A researcher with the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio has received a two-year, $402,500 grant award from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to study how microglia, […]

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