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)
Webster, Phillip Justin
Funded by
NIH
The Effects of Chronic mTOR Inhibition on Aging Muscle and Mitochondrial Function Sarcopenia is the age-dependent loss of skeletal muscle mass and function that begins early in adulthood and progresses into old age. These losses can increase the incidence of falls, morbidity, and severely impair the well-being of older people. The current therapies are insufficient to reverse these losses, so identifying key pathways could open up new therapeutic options which is particularly pressing given the rapid increase in the population of older people with the aging of the Baby Boom generation.
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)
Lai, Zhao
Funded by
NIH
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Funds are requested to purchase an Illumina HiSeq 3000 Sequencer for the Genome Sequencing Facility (GSF) of Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute (GCCRI) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). At the present time, high throughput sequencing is conducted on a heavily utilized Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencer that was purchased in December 2010, and there were no other publicly accessible high-throughput NGS platforms within UTHSCSA and surrounding San Antonio institutions.
