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Dr. Melanie Cobb, Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Director of Basic Research for the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and a luminary in molecular pharmacology, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the world.

Dr. Joseph Frank Sambrook, a preeminent and internationally known molecular biologist involved in pioneering molecular cloning, died June 14 at 80. Dr. Sambrook was recruited to UT Southwestern in the 1980s as Chairman of Biochemistry and later served as Director of the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development.

Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, Director of the Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care and Professor of Psychiatry, has received the Award for Research in Mood Disorders from the American College of Psychiatrists.

A study in JAMA Cardiology concludes that blood donation programs represent a unique opportunity as a public health portal to screen for diseases such as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a condition that causes extremely high levels of cholesterol at an early age.

Dr. Eugene P. Frenkel was revered for his compassionate bedside care and was highly respected as an academic mentor who supported the career development of countless students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty during a remarkable 57-year career at UT Southwestern.

Sixteen students from academic institutions around the U.S. trained with UT Southwestern professors as part of the Amgen Scholar program.

Dr. John Schoggins, known for his studies on antiviral immunity, has been named a 2019 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease. He is among 11 early career scientists selected for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) award, which provides research funding of $500,000 over five years.

Dr. Larissa Velez, who has led the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at UT Southwestern since 2011, has been selected as the new Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education.

For a second consecutive year, UT Southwestern is the top institution internationally within the health care category for publishing high-quality scientific research, according to the recently released Nature Index 2019 Annual Tables.

Scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) are using a new approach to pinpoint the causes of rare genetic diseases in children and identify treatment options faster than with traditional methods. The new approach combines DNA sequencing and a chemical analysis called metabolomics to identify mutant genes that cause defective metabolic pathways in patients.