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UTSW researchers pioneered the use of stereotactic ablative radiation (SAbR), reporting the first case in the literature in 2015.

2023 Leaders in Clinical Excellence Awards ceremony Published on: November 15, 2023 By: Staff Reports Tags: Video Patient Care Share: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google Plus Share on LinkedIn On Nov. 9, UT Southwestern celebrated the sixth annual Leaders in Clinical…

In 2007, a chronic kidney disease diagnosis led to a challenging journey for Maureen Silvestre. Pregnancy was considered risky due to the disease. Despite losing her first child, Hans, she received exceptional care at UT Southwestern. A successful kidney transplant from an anonymous donor restored her health. A second pregnancy, termed a “rainbow baby,” brought joy back into the Silvestres’ lives.

UT Southwestern’s Vascular Medicine Division leads advanced research in vascular biology, imaging, and clinical trials to improve diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease.

Carla Rodriguez Tirado, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at UT Southwestern, has been honored with a William F. and Grace H. Kirkpatrick Award to support her research into metastatic prostate cancer.

For the 4% of adults who have nasal polyps, the surgery offers relief from congestion and nasal obstruction, may restore the sense of smell, and reduces snoring and other symptoms, said Matthew Ryan, M.D., Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, who with his colleagues performs more than 700 advanced sinus surgeries a year.

When Drs. Sandra Schmid and Michael Rosen began planning UT Southwestern's cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) facility, they shared a vision: They wanted the University to use the new technology as soon as it attained atomic resolution.

Molecular imaging expert Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., will join UT Southwestern Feb. 1 as the first Chair of a new Department of Biomedical Engineering.

With the aid of a R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health and a large animal model of the disease, Dr. Kim and his team will develop and test minimally invasive tissue-engineering methods to transform the inflammatory environment into a regenerative one.

From investing in the most advanced cryo-electron microscopy to building novel 3-D optical microscopes for cancer studies, UT Southwestern is at the forefront of using and creating the technologies needed to advance biomedical discovery.