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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.

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.

James McCulley, M.D., who as Chair grew UT Southwestern’s Department of Ophthalmology into a major comprehensive care and training center while also producing internationally recognized research on topics such as eyelid inflammation and a blindness-causing parasite that can affect contact lens wearers, has been named Professor Emeritus at UTSW.

As COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations stabilized in North Texas, UT Southwestern launched a phased reopening of operations that had been suspended due to the outbreak – resuming nonemergency patient procedures, restarting near-shuttered research labs, and finding new ways to train the next generation of health care providers and scientists during a pandemic.

Meet the faculty who participate in UT Southwestern’s Gene Therapy Program.

Explore UT Southwestern research labs and rare disease types the Gene Therapy Program specializes in.

UT Southwestern and The Dallas Morning News joined forces recently to open the doors of research labs to the Dallas-area community with Science in the City. The event provided a look behind some of the groundbreaking research and medical miracles taking place on campus.

Imagine if you could save your parent’s life by donating a piece of your own. That’s what happened when the first living-donor liver transplant took place last year at UT Southwestern. During a simultaneous 7-hour surgery, a Texas daughter donated 60 percent of her liver to her mother.

Dr. Nicholas Lam, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Hesham Sadek, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Haberecht Wildhare-Idea Research Grant for his work on a novel strategy to enable heart muscle cells to regenerate.

In a year when protests over racial justice gripped the nation, UT Southwestern’s Office of Institutional Equity and Access, Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion, and Office of Faculty Diversity and Development found ways to bring the campus together for necessary conversations about race. The offices sponsored both collaborative and independent virtual events to keep staff, students, and faculty engaged even as a large part of the UTSW community continued to work and learn remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.