Claire Kowalick

UT Health San Antonio , the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio), to determine how rapamycin should be used in older adults to promote healthy aging.

When scientists test potential life‑extending interventions, often the central question simply asks if the intervention works. New research from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) suggests that the more meaningful questions may be when does it work and for whom?

The BioFest Days brought the community together April 7, for an evening of discovery and connection at the UT Health San Antonio Center for Brain Health. Hosted as part of the 12-day, citywide celebration of biomedical advancement organized by BioMed SA, the event invited attendees to explore how research, clinical care and community involvement […]

For more than 20 years, Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN , vice dean for research and scholarship and professor of nursing at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) School of Nursing , has studied how cancer patients and their families navigate the challenging experience of making decisions about treatment while facing uncertainty, fear and a flood of medical information.

Alzheimer’s is a highly heritable disease with about 60% of the risk coming from a person’s genes. The other 40% of the risk remains less well-studied and may, in part, come from environmental stressors. The University of Texas at San Antonio was recently awarded a highly competitive Alzheimer’s Association research grant to investigate the gene-environment […]

Chronic pain affects about a quarter of Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is a window of time in which acute pain can be treated before it turns into chronic pain. However, once chronicity has set in, treatments are limited to temporary pain relief through non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or opioids. […]

Like a busy restaurant kitchen, our cells depend on well-organized working spaces to assemble the “recipes” that keep the body healthy. When these spaces are disrupted, important functions like gene regulation and DNA repair can go awry, promoting diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration. UT San Antonio scientist David Libich, PhD, associate professor in […]

A study published in April, in the Journal of Dental Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, led by Greg Tuttle, DDS, explores an emerging approach to delivering local, fast-acting dental anesthesia while reducing the lingering numbness often associated with traditional techniques. The research team included University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) students Jared J. […]

The human body hosts vast communities of bacteria that influence health in ways scientists are only beginning to fully understand. In recent years, scientists have turned increasing attention to microbiomes as potential contributors to brain health and neurodegenerative disease. A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at San Antonio adds to […]

For decades, Alzheimer’s disease research has focused almost exclusively on harmful proteins in the brain. But scientists at The University of Texas at San Antonio are taking a new approach to how the disease is understood and treated. A recent study published in Nature Communications shows that certain lipids, fats that make up more than […]