Getting the Right Signals

July 23, 2015 by crystal.schibler

Researchers in Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have proposed a “unified” way to explain the function of dietary bioactives in suppressing cancer-causing cell signaling. Read the rest here.

Have a 2nd Cup of Coffee

Have a second cup: Coffee provides health benefits Review paper outlines Texas A&M research on protective effects of coffee APRIL 27, 2023 Having that second cup may actually be good for coffee drinkers, according to a discussion of coffee’s preventive and therapeutic benefits to human health in a recent review paper by Texas A&M University researchers. The… Read More →

Texas A&M receives $6 million to create Center of Excellence in Cancer

https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/texas-am-receives-6-million-to-create-center-of-excellence-in-cancer/ Texas A&M receives $6 million to create Center of Excellence in Cancer Five-year grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas will support infrastructure to investigate and advance cancer prevention and care April 4, 2023 Jennifer Cain Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) has been awarded a five-year, $6… Read More →

Chapkin Lab Undergrad Researcher Receives Award for Poster Presentation

Jennie P. Kim, a Nutritional Sciences major working on her Undergraduate Research Scholars Thesis in the Chapkin Lab (https://chapkinlab.tamu.edu) was recently awarded second place for her poster presentation in the Agricultural and Life Sciences category at the Texas A&M Student Research Week competition (https://srw.tamu.edu). Student Research Week is the largest student-run research symposium in the… Read More →

CPRIT – TREC GRANT FUNDED: Gene – environment – lifestyle interactions in cancer

The Chapkin Lab is pleased to announce the award of a $6 million grant from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas – TREC funding to support research in “Gene – environment – lifestyle interactions in cancer”. Dr. Robert Chapkin to serve as Deputy Director of the grant, Dr. Kenneth Ramos to serve as… Read More →

TEXAS A&M RESEARCHERS TO FURTHER DEVELOP UNIQUE CANCER DRUG WITH $2.3M NIH GRANT

Drs. Robert Chapkin, Gus Wright, James Cai, and Stephen Safe received a new NIH grant to perform a single cell multi-omic analysis of the colon tumor microenvironment to probe the mechanistic underpinnings of NR4A1-dependent modulation of T-cell exhaustion. Story by Jennifer Gauntt, VMBS Communications February 1, 2023 Preliminary data indicate that the compounds developed in… Read More →

Reappointed holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention in the Department of Nutrition

Congratulations! Dr. Robert S. Chapkin has been reappointed as the holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention in the Department of Nutrition for a second 5-year term from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2027. As the holder of the William W. Allen Chair in Nutrition since December… Read More →

$1.19 million grant will leverage single-cell sequencing technology: National Institutes of Health-funded project will help with cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention

The Texas A&M University System has received a $1.19 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, NIH, for a multidisciplinary collaboration to study the intricate connections between genomics, nutrition and health. Understanding these connections will help in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases. Yang Ni, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of… Read More →

Personalized Nutrition

Dr. Chapkin presents an invited webinar on “Personalized nutrition using microbial metabolite phenotype to stratify participants”. This presentation also features a discussion on host exfoliomics (host mRNAs isolated from the fecal stream) that reveal the effects of dietary fiber in a clinical trial.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research recognizes outstanding achievers

Research Scientist of the Year Award: Robert Chapkin, Ph.D Texas A&M AgriLife Research Professor Robert Chapkin, Ph.D., College Station, has made outstanding contributions to the areas of precision nutrition and stem cell biology, cancer chemoprevention and the development of noninvasive predictive biomarkers. Chapkin carries the title of Distinguished Professor in the Texas A&M University Department of… Read More →

Researchers target cell membranes for cancer research

“We are pleased to announce the publication of our recent paper on membrane therapy. The paper is highlighted in the American Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Today and can now be accessed online”. Fuentes JLR 2021, Supplemental Material . “You can read the article about our recent paper in the Journal of Lipid… Read More →