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Researchers developed a process for delivering quick and accurate analysis of SARS-CoV-2 variants, allowing researchers to track the variant landscape over time

For his research on Toxoplasma, Michael Reese, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, has received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award. The award provides $500,000 over five years to support investigators at the assistant professor level to shed light on how human and microbial systems are affected by their encounters.

UT Southwestern Medical Center continues its groundbreaking research into protein kinases with findings published in Molecular Cell that give new insights into Legionnaires’ disease.

Dr. Ambarish Pandey, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and a Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar, is using big data to improve diuretic resistance among patients with acute heart failure. Patients hospitalized with heart failure often have volume overload – too much blood in one of the heart chambers for proper function – and are treated with diuretics. Many of these patients do not have an adequate urine output response to the diuretics initially administered, which leads to a prolonged hospital stay as well as persistent symptoms of shortness of breath, he explained.

Caroline de Gracia Lux, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, has been awarded the 2021 Haberecht Wildhare-Idea Research Grant for investigating a potential game-changing strategy to improve the outcomes of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, a type of lung damage that can be caused by COVID-19.

Mujeeb Basit, M.D. and his team turned out meaningful reports on COVID-19 that included percent positivity of those tested, the evolution of cases and hospitalizations, vaccination rates, and mask-wearing. Mobility reports included details down to retail shopping, grocery shopping, and people’s visits to the workplace and public parks.

John Andersen, M.D., a pioneer and guiding force in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at UT Southwestern for over four decades, recently retired and has been appointed Professor Emeritus.

List of graduate candidates for 2020-2021 from the school of biomedical sciences.

Sam McBrayer, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern of Pediatrics in the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI), is one of six winners of the 2021 Distinguished Scientist Award, presented by the Sontag Foundation.