@article{0df661a774264ecda123c6c5818f623f,
title = "The Sam and Ann Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio",
abstract = "The Sam and Ann Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies is a focal point for advanced research designed exclusively to study the genes involved in aging and the diseases of aging. The research performed at the Barshop Center is based on a solid foundation of nearly twenty-five years of aging research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Internationally recognized scientists in aging are now leading innovative research programs using state-of-the-art technologies in molecular and cellular biology to explore aging processes at the gene level in the four major programs that comprise the research at the Barshop Center: the Cellular Aging Program, the Invertebrate Aging Program, the Rodent Models of Aging Program, and the Human Genetics of Aging Program. The researchers involved in these programs share a common purpose in an atmosphere of collaboration to gain the scientific insights necessary to understand the molecular basis of aging. Their long-term goal is to gain the knowledge that will give rise to the development of interventions that retard or arrest the debilitating conditions associated with aging. February or March 2003 marks the groundbreaking for the first building of Barshop Center's new stand-alone facility. This is the initial step toward a $70 million, world-class research complex dedicated to the study of aging and healthy longevity.",
keywords = "Cellular aging, Lifespan, Longevity and aging studies",
author = "Smith, {James R.} and Price, {M. Corinne} and Arlan Richardson",
note = "Funding Information: The Barshop Center is the outgrowth of the UTHSCSA's well-developed, multi- and interdisciplinary aging program that has its beginning in 1979 when the National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded the Health Science Center a large Program Project grant, The Nutritional Probe of the Aging Process, to Dr Edward Masoro and his colleagues. Since that time, the UTHSCSA has received continual funding from the NIA for this Program Project while obtaining other program projects and center grants for aging research, training, and education. In 1992, with the support of the administration, Dr Masoro founded the UTHSCSA's Aging Research and Education Center (AREC) to further enhance and expand the quality and quantity of aging studies at the UTHSCSA. In just ten years, the AREC, now directed by Dr Arlan Richardson, has a UTHSCSA faculty membership of more than 150 with research interests running the broad spectrum between biomedical research and clinical practice. During the past two decades, the UTHSCSA faculty members have made major discoveries in nutrition and aging, the molecular genetics of aging, and healthcare issues concerning the elderly Hispanic community, and have earned international recognition for their research on age-associated diseases, such as osteoporosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. At present, the AREC faculty have collectively more than $100 million in total funding for all current aging-related research and educational activities, including Centers, Training Programs, Program Project Grants, and research studies from the NIA and other NIH agencies, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and private funding, e.g. the Ellison Foundation, Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research awards, and grants from the American Heart Association and the American Federation for Aging Research, etc. The reputation and ability of these scientists to obtain such funding has earned the UTHSCSA recognition as having one of the nation's leading programs in aging studies. Funding Information: In 1998, building on the strengths of the UTHSCSA's aging program and recognizing the need for a research facility exclusively dedicated to the study of the genes involved in aging and age-related diseases, Dr Arlan Richardson began a campaign to create what would become the Barshop Center for Longevity and Aging Studies. A $6 million donation from The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, Texas initiated the campaign and made the planning of the building possible. Since that time, through generous financial backing from Sam and Ann Barshop, together with the support from other donors, a grant from the National Institutes of Health and UTHSCSA President, Dr Francisco Cigarroa, the plan became a reality as top scientists in the field of aging are recruited to direct Center programs. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00086-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "37",
pages = "957--962",
journal = "Experimental Gerontology",
issn = "0531-5565",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "8-9",
}