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Samir Parikh, M.D., had one eye on the rich history of UT Southwestern and the other on its promising future when he accepted the position of Chief of the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine.

Idris honored with ACEP Award for Outstanding Contribution in Research

UT Southwestern’s School of Health Professions will honor 132 degree candidates from six academic programs, its first in-person commencement since the COVID-19 pandemic began, on Dec. 12.

In response to a statewide need for more psychiatric beds and with financial support from the Texas Legislature, UT Southwestern has begun planning DFW’s first state-funded psychiatric hospital.

In conjunction with Division of Pediatric Critical Care Chief Jessica Moreland, M.D., and the Moreland lab, Dr. Nichols’ latest study, published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, investigated why some children with Type 1 diabetes develop a complication called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

Michael Trinh, the child of Vietnam War refugees, is the first graduate student from UT Southwestern to receive a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and one of 30 recipients nationwide. The fellowship will support his research on how cholesterol is transported inside human cells.

Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, helped plan and direct UT Southwestern’s Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility, which opened in 2016 with microscopes that can accomplish such feats. At 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28, she will give a virtual talk titled “Cryo-Electron Microscopy: Opening a Frosty Window into Cells” as the next speaker in the President’s Lecture Series. Register here for the event.

Karolina Stepien, who studies how the brain’s neurotransmitters are released from one neuron to send a signal to another, has been named winner of the 2021 Ida M. Green Award.

Four years into a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM), the research team has some ground-breaking preliminary findings. Unfortunately, the study has come to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and without 15 more children – new research participants – the study findings may never see the light of day.

UT Southwestern is one of the few medical schools in the U.S. with such an expansive 3D model development operation, allowing creation of specialized plastic body parts and tissue – simulated bones, ears, hands, and more – using six 3D printing machines.