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James McCulley, M.D., who as Chair grew UT Southwestern’s Department of Ophthalmology into a major comprehensive care and training center while also producing internationally recognized research on topics such as eyelid inflammation and a blindness-causing parasite that can affect contact lens wearers, has been named Professor Emeritus at UTSW.

Learn about the faculty members who have been named Dedman Scholars at UT Southwestern.

Michael Trinh, the child of Vietnam War refugees, is the first graduate student from UT Southwestern to receive a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and one of 30 recipients nationwide. The fellowship will support his research on how cholesterol is transported inside human cells.

In conjunction with Division of Pediatric Critical Care Chief Jessica Moreland, M.D., and the Moreland lab, Dr. Nichols’ latest study, published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, investigated why some children with Type 1 diabetes develop a complication called diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

An international research team led by a UT Southwestern scientist has identified a cause of and a possible treatment for Gorham-Stout disease, a painful, disfiguring, and life-threatening condition that destroys bone and can cause respiratory failure. The disease typically strikes children or young adults, leading to damage of affected bones as they are invaded and taken over by lymphatic vessels. Bones in the skull, jaw, shoulder, rib cage, and pelvis are the most commonly affected.

Eric Peterson, M.D., M.P.H., believes that UT Southwestern’s new Sequencing Populations to Accelerate Research and Care (SPARC) program will help unlock the future of medical research.

Learn about the faculty members who have been named Dedman Scholars at UT Southwestern.

Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D., a Professor at UT Southwestern in the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, is one of three researchers awarded the 2021 Memorial Sloan Kettering Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research.

To recognize and encourage the effort involved in obtaining and successfully managing federal training grants, faculty members who direct R-25, R-38, or T-32 grants will receive annual supplemental administrative compensation (SAC) for the duration of the grant.

UT Southwestern is one of the few medical schools in the U.S. with such an expansive 3D model development operation, allowing creation of specialized plastic body parts and tissue – simulated bones, ears, hands, and more – using six 3D printing machines.