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UT Southwestern secured record funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal year 2020, in both the number of grants and the total level of funding. In all, 153 grants representing current and future support of more than $253.26 million were approved in the last fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31.

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.

Dr. Anke Henning, an internationally recognized expert in the latest medical imaging technologies, has joined UT Southwestern as Director of the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC).

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.

A lucky family from the Ozarks moves to posh Beverly Hills and turns civilization on its head.

UT Southwestern employees recently gathered for the inaugural UT Southwestern Health System Celebration of Excellence to highlight and recognize UTSW’s top achievements in quality improvement over the past year. Open to the entire campus, the event emphasized how teamwork, innovation, and compassion all contribute to providing excellent patient care.

When the esteemed scientist, Professor, and former Chair of the Department of Biochemistry started his first year of college in 1968, he didn’t take his studies seriously. “I wasn’t interested in studying,” Dr. McKnight said. “I was interested in the whole college experience – anything but studying.”

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.

Rising Star Award

When Dr. Choy joined UTSW as Chair of Radiation Oncology in 2003, the Department had eight faculty members. It has since grown to more than 70 faculty members today. Meanwhile, patient volume has increased five-fold, with 3,500 patients served during the most recent fiscal year. In addition, a heightened emphasis on the education and training of future radiation oncologists has attracted highly qualified applicants.