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Leveraging its broad expertise in biomedical informatics, data sciences, and clinical sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center is aggressively expanding its involvement in clinical informatics, which aims to harness the power of big data to improve patient care and public health.

A gene that’s well known for its role in turning on tumor-suppressing genes when cells become stressed also keeps potential tumor-driving genes turned off, UT Southwestern researchers report in a new study.

While public attention has been focused on the million-plus Americans who have died from COVID-19 and the ongoing level of cases and hospitalizations, tens of millions of patients have developed life-altering symptoms that linger long after their COVID-19 infection clears.

Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) programs accurately predicted the role of DNA’s regulatory elements and three-dimensional (3D) structure based solely on its raw sequence, according to two recent studies in Nature Genetics.

The earlier individuals develop Type 2 diabetes or hypertension in life, the earlier they are likely to develop primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, researchers from UT Southwestern reported in a recent study.

On Friday, March 17, over 200 fourth-year medical students celebrated Match Day 2023.

UT Southwestern Medical School graduates raise their diplomas in celebration of earning their medical degrees. More than 200 students celebrated commencement on May 11, 2023.

In honor of Juneteenth, the oldest known commemoration that honors the abolition of slavery in the United States, UT Southwestern held a Freedom Day Celebration on Thursday, June 15, during lunchtime in the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital Pavilion.

In honor of Juneteenth, the federal holiday that commemorates African Americans’ freedom and the abolition of slavery in the United States, members of the UT Southwestern community were invited to celebrate the historic day with two events in Dallas-Fort Worth on June 19.

The Inaugural UT System AI Symposium in Health Care brought together experts representing all University of Texas health institutions on the UT Southwestern campus to discuss how artificial intelligence can effectively and ethically transform health care. Organizing committee members gathering for a photo include, from left: Edward Sankary, M.D., Chief Health Informatics Officer, Regional Physician Network for UT Health San Antonio; Igor Zwir, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UTRGV School of Medicine; Kevin Lutz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UTSW; Andrea Cooley, D.O., FACOS, Assistant Professor of Medical Education at UT Tyler School of Medicine; Yang Xie, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Data Sciences at UTSW; Joan Conaway, Ph.D., Vice Provost and Dean of Basic Research at UTSW; Eric Peterson, M.D., M.P.H., Vice Provost and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research at UTSW; Hongfang Liu, Ph.D., Vice President of Learning Health System, UTHealth…