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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.

Rising Star Award

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.”

In a year when protests over racial justice gripped the nation, UT Southwestern’s Office of Institutional Equity and Access, Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion, and Office of Faculty Diversity and Development found ways to bring the campus together for necessary conversations about race. The offices sponsored both collaborative and independent virtual events to keep staff, students, and faculty engaged even as a large part of the UTSW community continued to work and learn remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since the 1980s, the Perot Foundation has contributed more than $93 million to UT Southwestern, sparking innovation across campus. The Foundation’s recent $25 million gift to support neuroscience translational research will help the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute move science more quickly from the research bench to the patient’s bedside and transform discoveries into improved and innovative drugs, devices, and treatments.

Imagine if you could save your parent’s life by donating a piece of your own. That’s what happened when the first living-donor liver transplant took place last year at UT Southwestern. During a simultaneous 7-hour surgery, a Texas daughter donated 60 percent of her liver to her mother.

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.

The Department of Clinical Sciences has a new name that reflects its broader focus: the Department of Population and Data Sciences.

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.

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.