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Carlos J. Orihuela, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Paul Fitzpatrick, professor in Biochemistry, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Patricia L. Carlisle was awarded one of two Jess Hay Chancellor’s Graduate Student Research Fellowships presented this year to encourage and support high-quality research that could benefit Texans.  The $10,000 award was established by former UT System Regent Jess Hay, who served on the board of regents from 1977 through 1989, including two years as chairman.

Six Recipients Selected as Translational Science Training Scholars

Suzanne Thibodeaux was awarded the GSBS Ambassador Scholarship at a ceremony held on April 20, 2010.

Salvatore Oddo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and senior author of a study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, offers the first evidence that the drug rapamycin is able to reverse Alzheimer’s-like deficits in an animal model.  “Our findings may have a profound clinical implication,” said Dr. Oddo, who is a member of the university’s Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. “Because rapamycin is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved drug, a clinical trial using it as an anti-Alzheimer’s disease therapy could be started fairly quickly.”  Rapamycin also reduced lesions in the brains of the mice, the team found.  The lesions are similar to those seen in the brains of people who died with Alzheimer’s.  Click here to read the entire article.