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| Three Health Science Center researchers will be featured in a radio broadcast of “Newsmaker’s Hour” at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, on KSTX 89.1 FM. | |
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SAN ANTONIO (Nov. 14, 2007)— Advancements in genetics research in San Antonio — with global impact on HIV/AIDS, schizophrenia and aging — were the focus Nov. 14 as National Public Radio’s Ira Flatow, award-winning host of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” hosted a special “Science Wednesday” from the Alamo City.
Three faculty members from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio presented their work and observations.
Program to be broadcast on “Newsmaker’s Hour” on Nov. 30 Texas Public Radio spotlighted DNA research in San Antonio during “DNA Files Month” in November. Flatow hosted the show from the San Pedro Playhouse. The program was taped for broadcast on Texas Public Radio’s “Newsmaker Hour” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, on KSTX 89.1 FM.
Dr. Sunil K. Ahuja, of the Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Biochemistry at the Health Science Center, and Dr. Matthew Dolan, of the San Antonio Military Medical Center and the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., discussed genes that confer cell-mediated immunity against HIV/AIDS. Part of this study, recently published in the journal
Nature Immunology, was conducted in a population at Wilford Hall Medical Center.
Consuelo Walss-Bass, Ph.D., of the Health Science Center Department of Psychiatry, discussed research on the genetic links to schizophrenia.
Paul Hasty, D.V.M., of the Department of Molecular Medicine and the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, discussed how better understandings of DNA repair mechanisms could lead to healthier aging in the future.
# # #The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is the leading research institution in South Texas and one of the major health sciences universities in the world. With an operating budget of $576 million, the Health Science Center is the chief catalyst for the $15.3 billion biosciences and health care industry, the leading sector in San Antonio’s economy. The Health Science Center has had an estimated $35 billion impact on the region since inception and has expanded to six campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. More than 22,000 graduates (physicians, dentists, nurses, scientists and allied health professionals) serve in their fields, including many in Texas. Health Science Center faculty are international leaders in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, aging, stroke prevention, kidney disease, orthopaedics, research imaging, transplant surgery, psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, pain management, genetics, nursing, allied health, dentistry and many other fields.
