Research

Research Overview

The Center for Metabolic Health (CMH) builds on UT Health San Antonio’s strengths in metabolism and nutrition research, education, and clinical programs. CMH seeks to foster communication and collaboration between investigators and clinicians with a shared interest in metabolic health including obesity, type 2 diabetes, liver function, behavioral change strategies, exercise, recovery from inactivity (e.g., bed rest, hospitalization, casting), and physical activity.

Resources and Infrastructure

UT Health San Antonio has an outstanding group of NIH investigators in the areas of metabolism, diabetes, nutrition, behavioral change strategies, and exercise physiology.

These successful investigators include faculty from the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine Departments of:

• Biochemistry and Structural Biology
• Cell Systems and Anatomy
  Cellular and Integrative Physiology
• Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology,Diabetes, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, and Nephrology
• Molecular Medicine
• Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes
• Pharmacology
• Radiology
• Radiation Oncology

UT Health San Antonio scientists currently have several NIH-supported clinical trials on metabolic health:

• Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium – MoTrPAC
• Study in Parkinson’s Disease of Exercise Phase 3 – SPARX3
• Sex-Specific Determinants of Early Phase Recovery from Muscle Disuse
• Combining Testosterone Therapy and Exercise to Improve Function Post Hip Fracture
• Strength Training in Older Type 2 Diabetics