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The deans in academic leadership at UT Southwestern.

To support women's urologic health research – and hopefully lead to new and better treatments – the Felecia and John Cain Chair in Women's Health, in Honor of Philippe Zimmern, M.D. has been established. The inaugural holder is Dr. Zimmern.

Advancements in gene editing, buoyed by the discovery of CRISPR technology that enables precise editing of the human genome, have put scientists on the cusp of solving some of mankind’s most devastating and baffling disorders. Among them is DMD, a muscle-withering disease that UT Southwestern geneticists have halted in animals and human cells through a single-cut gene-editing technique.

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences, has selected two UT Southwestern investigators to receive five-year awards that begin this year.

Professional journey of UTSW researcher Dr. Lu Le, former refugee

Furry friends among volunteers honored at annual Luncheon

Graduate School leadership at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Rodney Infante, who studies cancer cachexia, has been named a 2019 recipient of a Career Award for Medical Scientists by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF). He is among 13 scientists selected for this research grant, which provides support of $700,000 over five years.

A study in JAMA Cardiology concludes that blood donation programs represent a unique opportunity as a public health portal to screen for diseases such as familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a condition that causes extremely high levels of cholesterol at an early age.

Dr. Melanie Cobb, Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Director of Basic Research for the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and a luminary in molecular pharmacology, has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the world.