David Newstead, Speaker at Houston Audubon May Meeting Over the last decade, the Coastal Bird Program of Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP) has been involved in a number of projects to answer questions about the connectivity between the … Read more
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Developing Tools to Screen Traumatic Brain Injury Therapies
Kleberg Foundation Grant to UH Professor Funds TBI Model By Lisa Merkl Each year, an estimated 1.7 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI), with an estimated 5 million Americans suffering from long-term effects. Among veterans and athletes, this … Read more
PIONEERING INSIGHTS INTO CANCER METASTASIS
Consider this scenario: A man has surgery to remove a tumor in his kidney. No additional cancer is detected and the man remains cancer free for 29 years. Then, without warning, the cancer returns somewhere else in his body. Sloan … Read more
KLEBERG FOUNDATION AWARDS MAJOR GRANT TO TEACH FOR AMERICA
McALLEN, Texas—The Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation announced plans to invest $1 million over three years in Teach For America–Rio Grande Valley. The new three-year grant will support teacher recruitment, training, and support. The Kleberg Foundation … Read more
Setting Cancer Cells on the Right Path: A New Leukemia Drug Shows Growing Promise
By Eva Kiesler on Friday, January 30, 2015 Epigenetics— the study of biochemical changes that influence a cell’s genetic programming — is arguably one of the fastest-moving fields of cancer research. At Memorial Sloan Kettering, scientists are exploring a number of … Read more
ONLINE GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS
The Foundation is adopting an online grant application process and will no longer accept paper submissions. Please refer to our Grant Guidelines for more information.
Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development awarded grant to develop therapeutic vaccine for chagas disease
HOUSTON — The Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership (Sabin PDP) received a grant of $1.8 million from the … Read more
UT Health Science Center determines structure of toxin in respiratory infections
Discovery could spur drug and vaccine development in asthma, other diseases Contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu For immediate release SAN ANTONIO (April 6, 2015) – Researchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center … Read more
UTSA Receives More Than $5 Million in Gift Commitments to Advance Second Phase of Capital Campaign
SAN ANTONIO – The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received nearly $5.1 million in gift commitments this fall to support priority programs in the next phase of its capital campaign and the university’s advancement to Tier One … Read more
Museum of South Texas History Archival Documents Examined in Drs. Harris and Sadler Book, “The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue.” Authors to present Sunday Speaker Series program at MOSTHistory on Sept. 15
EDINBURG — The Museum of South Texas History (“MOSTHistory”), a museum chronicling the heritage of South Texas and Northeastern Mexico, welcomes authors Charles H. Harris III, Ph.D. and Louis R. Sadler, Ph.D. as they present their latest work, “The Plan … Read more
