Congratulations to Kevin Koronowski, PhD on his UT Rising STARs Award!

March 14, 2022

 Kevin Koronowski, PhD has been awarded a $250,000 UT Rising STARs award.  The grant is for the purchase of equipment for newly recruited junior faculty.  Dr. Koronowski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology in the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine and the Sam and Ann [...]


Congratulations to Jun Zhang, PhD on his Barth Syndrome Foundation award!

March 11, 2022

 Dr. Jun Zhang's project “ALCAT1 as a Novel Target for the Treatment of Cardiomyopathy in Barth Syndrome” has been accepted and fully funded for a two-year period by the Barth Syndrome Foundation.  Dr. Zhang is an Instructor/Research in the lab of Dr. Yuguang Shi with the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging [...]


Congratulations to Dr. Chen on her R01!

September 21, 2021

Lizhen Chen, PhD has received an R01 from the NIH for her project titled “Neuronal microtubule regulation and aging.”  Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Cell Systems and Anatomy in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of […]