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)
Langevin, Anne-Marie
Funded by
NIH
The South Texas Pediatric NCI Community Oncology Research Program (STP NCORP) for Minority and Underserved is composed of five independent Children's Oncology Group (COG) institutions. The catchment area (South Texas and most of Central Texas) serves a large population of patients spread over 90,000 square miles. The population is young and in majority Hispanic (> 50%) with a significant portion of patients under the age of 18 living in poverty, particularly in the Texas-Mexico border region.
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)
Wagner, Brent
Funded by
NIH
Exposure to gadolinium-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast is a major risk factor in the acquisition of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), a severely debilitating disease first recognized in patients with acute or chronic renal impairment. MRI contrast agents heretofore were considered safe in these patients and thus indiscriminately used. Gadolinium-based contrast agents remain a mainstay for MR imaging and alternatives are still lacking.
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)
Rao, Manjeet Kumar
Funded by
NIH
Even after decades of research, the molecular basis for why spermatogenesis requires testosterone is not completely understood. This is in part because very few androgen-regulated genes have been definitively identified so far. It is likely that most androgen-regulated genes in the testis respond indirectly to androgen via activation or suppression of transcription by other trans-acting factors directly regulated by androgen.