A pair of researchers work in the Hsieh Lab.
AUGUST 20, 2025 — Jenny Hsieh imagines a future without the fear of Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy or other brain disorders.
As the Semmes Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cell Biology, chair of the Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology department, and director of the UTSA Brain Health Consortium, Hsieh has dedicated her life’s work to understanding, at the cellular level, the genetic and epigenetic causes of neurodegenerative diseases.
Her goal is to develop targeted therapeutics for treating and curing these conditions. Hsieh was recruited to UTSA, and her work was made possible, through a $2.7 million gift from The Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and an endowment for the Semmes Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cell Biology.