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Seven medical students named Schweitzer Fellows

The Department of Clinical Sciences has a new name that reflects its broader focus: the Department of Population and Data Sciences.

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A two-year fellowship in clinical pharmacology turned into a lifelong career at UT Southwestern. Forty-two years later, Dr. Sagalowsky has retired and, effective earlier this year, was appointed Professor Emeritus of Urology. Along the way, he kept a handwritten logbook of more than 8,000 surgeries, many of them complex procedures.

Find the schedule for the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP), a nondegree program for minority high school students.

UT Southwestern scientists have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which yeast cells regulate the production of mevalonate, a form of cholesterol. The findings, published online in eLife, could eventually lead to new ways to fight high cholesterol, a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease in humans. “It’s exciting that in yeast, there’s a previously unappreciated way to regulate mevalonate,” said study leader Dr. W. Mike Henne,, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Biophysics at UTSW and a member of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. “This may be an important regulatory mechanism for cholesterol in our cells too.”

25 years of Employment at UT Southwestern

A type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that shows the level of oxygen in tumors may predict which ones will respond well to radiation therapy, research led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests. The findings, published online by the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, could offer a way to personalize therapy for the many patients worldwide who receive radiation to treat cancers.

Dr. John Sweetenham, Associate Director for Clinical Affairs at UT Southwestern’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, has papers on cancer patients’ use of emergency departments featured at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Sometimes “paying it forward” creates a web of good works that leads right back to the giver. That’s the story of Tim Ervin, who in 2014 received a lifesaving double-lung transplant at UT Southwestern.