UT Health San Antonio has secured nearly $11 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention...
Masahiro Morita, a scientist at UT Health San Antonio, with graduate student Michelle Ramirez. UT Health has received $10.9 million for new research and faculty recruitment from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Of the total, $1.05 million will support Morita’s research on obesity-induced liver cancer.UT Health San Antonio has secured nearly $11 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to support research and recruitment.
Slightly more than $1 million from this round of funding will go to Masahiro Morita, an assistant professor of molecular medicine at UT Health’s Long School of Medicine. Their team studies how the structure of mitochondrial cells differs in obese mice and how the degradation of cells could be suppressed through drug therapy.UT Health San Antonio gets $6 million grant for DNA cancer research from state agency
It does, however, have a problem with obesity — 71 percent of San Antonio’s population, just under 1 million people, are considered overweight or obese based on their body mass index.
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