The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Ran, Qitao
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of Americans.Neurons have a large amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids in membrane phospholipids that are vulnerable toattack by reactive oxygen species to result in lipid peroxidation. Lipid peroxidation is increased in AD brains andis believed to play a key role in driving neurodegeneration of AD. However, supplementation of lipid solubleantioxidants yields only mixed results in clinical trials. So the importance of lipid peroxidation in AD remainsunproven.
59th Medical Wing at the Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center (WHASC)
The 59th Medical Wing Chief Scientist provides the strategic vision, direction, oversight, project management support and technical resources to advance medical modernization efforts with a unique focus on research activities.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Daws, Lynette C
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
Medications to help treat addiction exist for many major drugs of abuse, but not for psychostimulants, such asamphetamine, and its congeners. They are also lacking for increasingly used synthetic drugs designed to mimicthe actions of known psychostimulants. Both known and new psychoactive substances continue to pose a majorand increasing public health threat. To develop effective treatments, the mechanisms by which these stimulantsproduce their abuse-related effects need to be fully understood.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Chen, Shuo
Funded by
NIH-DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH
One of the most important goals of dentistry and the NIDCR/NIH is to generate a whole ?Bio-Tooth?. Dentin is a critical structural component of tooth. Although it has made great progress ofdentin development benefit for numerous hereditary syndromes and chromosomal anomalies,many gaps have been remained.
