![\"\"](\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/01\/BarshopRendering3Stories-REVJBB.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A new era of research and discoveries in aging began in October when UT Health San Antonio broke ground on a new and expanded Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies.<\/p>\n
The three-story, 108,000-square-foot building will be located at the corner of Floyd Curl and Charles Katz drives, adjacent to UT Health San Antonio\u2019s Medical Arts & Research Center and across the street from the university\u2019s Greehey Academic & Research Campus.<\/p>\n
The first floor of the new building will include open research labs, laboratory support, administrative and research faculty offices, and a large vivarium with support spaces and cage wash facilities. The second and third floors will accommodate future research labs and faculty offices.
\nAn open-air bridge will cross over Floyd Curl and connect the Barshop to the South Texas Research Facility. The total project will cost $70.2 million.<\/p>\n
This vision of a world-class center for aging research first came into focus in 1991, when Edward J. Masoro, Ph.D., founded the university\u2019s Aging Research and Education Center through a leadership award granted to him by the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n
In 2001, the Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies was created through a donation from San Antonio philanthropists Sam and Ann Barshop. It was located at the Texas Research Park on Lambda Drive in southwest San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Since that time, the Barshop has grown into one of the world\u2019s premier aging research centers and is now the only aging-intensive research institute in the country to have two NIA-funded centers (Nathan Shock and Claude D. Pepper), a testing site of the NIA-sponsored Interventions Testing Program, and a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center.<\/p>\n
Construction on the new building is expected to be complete by late 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new era of aging research began when UT Health San Antonio broke ground on a new and expanded Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":11021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,63],"tags":[220,99,211],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2017-winter-2018","category-university-in-motion","tag-aging","tag-barshop","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"\n