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)
Singh, Brij B
Funded by
NIH-DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH
Saliva performs a number of extremely important biological functions that are instrumental in maintaining oral health. It has been estimated that more than 5 million people in the US suffers from salivary gland dysfunction. Secretion of saliva is driven by concerted activities of a number of ion channels and transporters. Although, it is believed that calcium is the primary intracellular factor that regulates fluid secretion, the molecular mechanism involved in the regulation of cytosolic calcium is not clearly 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)
Dougherty, Donald M
Funded by
NIH-NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
Collaborating Institutions
UTAUSTIN UMB
This competing renewal of our longitudinal project proposes to elucidate mechanisms driving the initiationand progression of substance use is consistent with NIDA and NIMH's recently outlined strategic plans (NIDA,2016; NIH CRAN, 2015; NIMH, 2015) prioritizing research on the period between adolescence and youngadulthood. Defining features of typical adolescent development are increases in sensation seeking followed bymore gradual increases in impulse control (described by the Dual Systems model).
