2016 Article Archive
Nominata Award: 2016 Nominees
The Nominata Award, which recognizes a top student in the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is presented annually through a selection process that encompasses numerous educational programs.
Students quickly advancing through integrated medical curriculum
Katherine Pouns and Reed Macy, co-Presidents for the Class of 2019, will always remember their first day of instruction at UT Southwestern Medical School.
SWAT’s Education Week delivers messaging tips, campus events
Speaking to attendees of the SWAT Educational Symposium, Dr. Evonne Kaplan-Liss said educators need to understand that learning to “distill your message” can make a critical difference in reaching an audience.
Mitosis discovery helps Genetics, Development and Disease researcher Ji win 2016 recognition
Six years ago, Zhejian Ji left his native China for the first time and traveled to Texas in pursuit of a lifelong goal – to become a scientist.
Texan is first adult in U.S. to receive updated stem cell transplant for leukemia treatment
Texan Chuck Dandridge became the first adult in the U.S. to receive a newly modified stem cell transplant that uses genetically engineered blood cells from a family member, announced researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Harold C. Simmons Comp
Cancer researchers find up to one-quarter of lung cancer patients may be ineligible for immunotherapy
A significant proportion of lung cancer patients also have autoimmune disease, which may make them unsuitable for increasingly popular immunotherapy treatments, a team of researchers at UT Southwestern's Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have found.
Study shows Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection
The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.
Saluting our newest graduates
The UT Southwestern Medical School conferred degrees upon more than 230 new graduates June 1 in a Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center packed to the rafters with faculty members, friends and relatives of the Class of 2016.
UTSW physicians first in Texas to transplant lungs using new technology to make more organs viable
Transplant surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center have performed the first lung transplant in Texas using donated lungs treated with new technology known as ex-vivo lung perfusion.
Once again, United to Serve hits community mark
United to Serve, the community service event led by students at UT Southwestern, recently assisted more than 180 Dallas-area families, many of whom annually set aside the day for the opportunity to receive medical information and attention.