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As the weeks turn into months in this pandemic, it can be hard to stay focused and positive, especially if residents face a combination of stressors at work and at home. UT Southwestern offers a variety of resources to help residents and other learners in this challenging time.

Drs. Favela and Argo, who met at UT Southwestern, were hoping to match to the same place. Medical students who go through the match process with their significant other have the option to link their match lists in the National Resident Matching Program. The couple, who became engaged in October, were among seven medical interns from across the U.S. selected for the University of Wisconsin’s general surgery residency program on Match Day a year ago.

When Dr. Daniela Nicastro was recruited to UT Southwestern in 2015 to build a state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy (EM) facility, she was charged with designing climate-controlled, low-vibration EM suites, purchasing instruments, training staff, and securing additional funding. UTSW’s cryo-EM facility opened in 2016, giving researchers access to instruments that can record images of proteins, macromolecular complexes, and cells with up to atomic resolution. To meet campus demand, the facility started to expand last year.

UT Southwestern is participating in some of the country’s most promising clinical trials with medical centers nationwide to determine whether existing drugs can effectively treat COVID-19.

. Based on the findings he has made involving flaviviruses and his collaborative work on other viral diseases, Mr. Boys, a member of the Immunology Graduate Program, is this year’s recipient of the Nominata Award, the highest honor bestowed upon an advanced student of the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

A UT Southwestern scientist who developed a compound to treat a genetic defect that can cause blindness won a $50,000 prize at the Big Idea Competition, an annual event to promote entrepreneurship at The University of Texas at Dallas.

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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.

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.

As graduates of the Medical School Class of 2020 prepare to launch their careers as doctors this summer, Center Times Plus celebrates this educational milestone. We talked to five graduating medical students about their special talents, significant medical school experiences, and challenges they’ve overcome that have shaped them. We are grateful to them for sharing their stories!