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Congratulations to Dr. Afaf Saliba on her Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Nobel Laureate Bruce Beutler’s Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center! We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Saliba, our recent PhD graduate and current Postdoctoral research fellow, has accepted a postdoctoral position at UTSW’s Center for the Genetics of Host Defense under Nobel Laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler, starting June 2025! #ResearchExcellence #Innovation #Mentorship #StudentSuccess 👇 https://lnkd.in/eEevwiCS The photo is from Dr. Bruce Beutler’s visit to UT Health San Antonio in April 2023 featuring members of the Center for Precision Medicine. Afaf is third from the left, alongside Dr. James Lechleiter, and Dr. Kumar Sharma, and Dr. Bruce Beutler. UT Health San Antonio Office of Postdoctoral Affairs UT Health San Antonio Postdoc Association (UP) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Office of Student Success at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences UT Health San Antonio

Call for abstracts for the 27th Annual Department of Medicine Research Day to be held on Tuesday, December 10, 2024.   Submission deadline: 12:00 pm (noon) on Thursday, October 31, 2024. Awards Categories: ✔️ High School/ Undergraduate Students ✔️ Graduate Students ✔️ Medical Residents/ Students Clinical Fellows ✔️ Post-Doctoral Fellows/ Junior Faculty Submit here: https://lnkd.in/gaFxYFFa Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio UT Health San Antonio Postdoc Association (UP) UT Health San Antonio Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Long School of Medicine UT Health San Antonio

In Memoriam of William Lloyd Henrich, MD, MACP Obituary in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology honoring our beloved late president of UT Health San Antonio Dr. William Lloyd Henrich "His last message to the faculty before he left on medical leave was, “Our noble work helps these families, educates these young professionals, and delivers research advances that benefit everyone, everywhere in the world. I have confidence in you to make the lofty goals established for our institution a reality.” These words are the essence of who Bill was. Bill's passing is no doubt a colossal loss to his family, friends, colleagues, and the academic medical community at large. He has always been and should always be a role model for anyone who strives to achieve in academic medicine. Bill's devotion, conviction, and obsession was always: “What can I do for others and how do I accomplish that” in clinical practice, scientific discovery, education, mentoring, and academic leadership. He will be dearly missed but never forgotten." https://lnkd.in/g34XUCSV

Check our latest publication "Glycolytic Lactate in Diabetic Kidney Disease" at the JCI insight! This elegant work was led by Dr. Kumar Sharma, in collaboration with Dr. David Z.I. Cherney (University Health Network , Toronto, Canada), the Kidney Precision Medicine Project, and Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study (CRIC) study investigators. Congratulations to Dr. Manjula Darshi and all co-authors! Link to publication: https://lnkd.in/gSM-nzmC Key highlights: ✔ This study explores lactate as a biomarker for mitochondrial dysfunction in Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD). ✔ Elevated urine lactate in DKD patients in HUNT3, SMART2D, and CRIC cohorts. ✔High urine lactate/creatinine levels linked to faster kidney function decline. ✔ Lactate production in T1D patients connected to glucose levels, with SGLT2 inhibition reducing lactate production.