Vision
Imagine living strong and healthy throughout your lifespan, growing older with vigor and without disability. The Barshop Institute is bringing together the world's leading scientists in aging research and equipping them with the latest technologies and research methods to understand, treat, and cure aging-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. In its quest to eradicate the ravages of age-related disease, the Barshop Institute will become the premier center for aging research, world-wide.
This vision of a world-class center for aging research first came into focus in 1991, when Dr. Edward Masoro founded the UTHSCSA's Aging Research and Education Center with a leadership award granted to him from the National Institutes of Health.
Architectural rendering of the then proposed basic research facility of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, 2001. The new building was completed in early 2005 and dedicated May 2, 2005. |
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Dr. Edward Masoro (L), founding director of the UTHSCSA Aging Research and Education Center, and Dr. Arlan Richardson (R), director of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.
Upon Dr. Masoro's retirement in 1996, Dr. Arlan Richardson was named the Center's director, and in 1998, Dr. Richardson turned the burgeoning success of aging program into all out campaign for a state-of-the-art, basic research facility for the study of the genetics of aging and longevity. In 2001, The Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies was born from a generous donation from Mr. and Mrs. Sam Barshop, prominent San Antonio philanthropists.
Dr. Richardson and the faculty members at the Barshop Institute are grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Barshop for their vision and steadfast support in helping to develop the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies into an unparalleled center for studies of aging and aging-related diseases.
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