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Dr. Michael Rosen, Chair of the Department of Biophysics, will share his research about these newly described cellular structures with the campus community in an upcoming President’s Lecture Series. Titled “Like Oil from Water: How the Cell Interior is Organized by Phase Separation,” the virtual event will be presented at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 11, at utsouthwestern.edu.pls.

Dr. Maurice Korman, Professor Emeritus and founding Chief of the Division of Psychology who spent nearly 50 years at UT Southwestern, died Feb. 28. He was 90.

Once each quarter, six employees within UT Southwestern’s Health System are selected to receive the Strauss Award, which honors employees in our hospital and clinics who exemplify excellence and professionalism in all they do.

A team led by UT Southwestern researchers has identified a key gene necessary for cells to consume and destroy viruses. The findings, reported online in Nature, could lead to ways to manipulate this process to improve the immune system’s ability to combat viral infections, such as those fueling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

For several years, Dr. Scott Smith, Associate Dean of Research in the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, worked closely with the Dean, Dr. Jon Williamson, to secure approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the state’s first Ph.D. program in Applied Clinical Research. Approval came in April 2019, and the program welcomed its first cohort of Ph.D. students that fall. Providing rigorous clinical research training for allied health professionals aspiring to pursue careers as independent clinician investigators, the program is an essential part of the plan to stimulate growth in the School of Health Professions’ research enterprise.

On March 19, the Medical School Class of 2021 will celebrate Match Day. The milestone event marks when medical students around the country find out where they will do their residency training. To mark this year’s celebration, Center Times caught up with four UT Southwestern alumni from the Class of 2020 who all matched into UTSW residency programs. In their videos, you’ll get a glimpse into their busy lives as first-year residents, learn why they wanted to remain at UTSW for their training, and hear their advice for medical students set to match.

A nonsurgical procedure that uses innovative valve devices – both developed through multicenter clinical studies, including at UT Southwestern – is giving patients with severe emphysema a new treatment option that allows them to breathe easier.

One of 50 recipients of a 2021 Gilliam Graduate Fellowship for Advanced Study, Ms. Álvarez Benedicto will use grant funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support her research to repurpose lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for cancer treatment.

On Aug. 1, Arindam Roy’s life tragically changed forever. His wife, Sarmistha Sen, a cancer researcher in UT Southwestern’s Department of Radiation Oncology, left for her customary early-morning jog. She never returned.

To commemorate a researcher who kept the institution at the forefront of her field, UT Southwestern announced efforts to establish the Beth Levine Prize in Autophagy Research.