Sam & Ann Barshop Institute

📢 Register now for the 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging! 📅 Oct 9–12 | 📍 Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX Theme: "Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention" 🔗 Details & registration: bit.ly/3UG2bew #Geroscience #AgingResearch #BarshopConference

🎉 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. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/43TWWvg

Join us Wed. April 9th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Perry Bickel, MD presents: "#Perilipin 5 keeps #mitochondria in shape." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

For 30+ years, @UTHealthSA’s Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging has led aging research. New @NIHAging funding helps to keep it going. “Not every place in the U.S. has the density of aging researchers like we do at UT Health San Antonio,” says Adam…

🎉 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. 🧬⏳ #AgingResearch #Longevity #UMHET3 bit.ly/4m88Wkr

🚨 Big win in the fight against drug-resistant cancer! Dr. Daohong Zhou earns a $2.4M CPRIT award to boost core labs with cutting-edge tech—like CRISPR screening + small molecule degraders—to develop therapies for tough-to-treat cancers. 🔗bit.ly/45zRAYJ

Big win for @UTHealthSA! A team at the @UTHealthBarshop is a semifinalist + Milestone 1 winner in @XPRIZE’s $101M #XPRIZEHEALTHSPAN challenge — exploring ultrasound to reverse cellular aging. bit.ly/4kxAMWQ

🎧 Listen to Dr. Lisa Kilpela, Pepper Center investigator, on Texas Public Radio as she discusses food insecurity and binge eating in older women. 🔗 tpr.org/podcast/petrie… #AgingResearch #FoodInsecurity #BingeEating #HealthyAging

📣 Join us Wed, May 28 @ 4PM CT for our Spring Seminar Series! Stephen Harridge, PhD presents: "The Biology of Human Aging: Differentiating Ageing from Inactivity" 🔗 Details: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #BarshopSeminarSeries

We’re proud to be a Semifinalist team of #XPRIZEHealthspan, a 7-year, $101 million global competition that aims to revolutionize the way we approach human aging. We look forward to this next chapter of the competition as we continue to develop our therapeutic.@XPRIZE

Join us Wed. May 7th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Kevin Bieniek, PhD, presents: "3D brain modeling and #neuropathology: tools for brain aging and #neurodegenerative disease research." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Scientists from UT Health SA, Duke, & UAMS — led by Drs. Hong-yu Li, Zhengyu Wang, Hui-kuan Lin, and Zhiqiang Qin — uncovered how cells absorb large & polar drugs & devised a novel strategy to optimize the capacity of drug delivery into these cells. 🧪🔬 bit.ly/3Gp682J

Join us Wed. April 30th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Rebeca Wong, PhD, presents: "Insights and remaining gaps from a 23-year longitudinal population study on Mexican aging." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Join us Wed. April 23rd at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Robert Williams, PhD, presents: "Genetic Modulation of Life Span: Dynamic Effects, Sex Differences, and Body Weight Trade-offs in UM-HET3 Mice." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Join us Wed. April 16th at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. David Cohen, MD, PhD presents: "Leveraging Energy Expenditure in the Management of #Obesity-Associated Disorders." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

Very excited to announce my PhD Defense! ⏰Wednesday April 16th, 2025 | 9am CST Tune in to learn more about the role of sugar in the brain and microglial interactions with Alzheimer's Disease Pathology!🧠 @UTHealthBarshop @UTHealthSA_GSBS Almost #PhDone

A new publication from Daniel Adekunbi, PhD, shows that aging is associated with a significant decline in mitochondrial bioenergetics in the brain in a non-human primate model of aging. bit.ly/4iROgMm

Join us Wed. April 2nd at 4pm CT for our Spring Seminar Series. Roger Shi, PhD presents: "In Search of the Holy Grail: #ALCAT1 Controls the #Mitochondrial Free Radical Aging Clock." More info: bit.ly/4jjeaJw #barshopseminarseries

A new study from the lab of Kevin Koronowski, PhD, looks at the effect of chronic jet lag in mice on their behavior and metabolism dysfunction in the liver. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

Congratulations to Kevin Koronowski, PhD on his award from the American Heart Association! He is the recipient of a three-year American Heart Association Career Development Award for his project titled “Lifting the Circadian Brake on PPAR Alpha.” bit.ly/425OQih