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Match Day 2022: Student spotlights

Two UT Southwestern researchers – one investigating how cancer cells acquire complex genomes and another exploring how photosynthetic animal cells could pave the way for laboratory-based meat products – have been awarded 2022 Haberecht Wildhare-Idea Research Grants.

Dr. Barker is among 14 educators from across the state system recognized Nov. 16-17 as Regents’ Award winners by the UT System Board of Regents.

Biomedical innovator Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., aims to use the power of light to expose and defend against one of the darkest forces of disease that has affected humankind for millions of years – cancer. On Nov. 2, as the final speaker in this year’s President’s Lecture Series, Dr. Achilefu will highlight the history of promising fluorescence imaging technology, discuss its current state, and provide a glimpse of what future applications and opportunities may look like.

UT Southwestern faculty members Philip Greilich, M.D., M.Sc., and Janine Prange-Kiel, Ph.D., have been selected to join the UT System’s Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., Academy of Health Science Education in recognition of their outstanding teaching. New members will be inducted at the Academy’s annual Innovations in Health Science Education Conference, scheduled Feb. 22-23, 2024, in Austin.

Dani Mathisen, a third-year UT Southwestern medical student, resolved to find a simple way to talk with kids about the pandemic after hearing this question from a young relative. One night when she couldn’t sleep, she came up with the idea to create an alphabet book to explain the disease and the safety precautions it requires.

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Five early career physician-researchers are the first awardees to receive support from the UT Southwestern Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists (UT-FOCUS) program.

As another Match Day approaches, Dr. Ratner said that students in the Class of 2020 should prepare to shift their thinking from making good grades to providing good care. It was a big adjustment for her.

Three UT Southwestern Medical Center faculty members, including two from the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present at the American Association for Cancer Research’s Annual Meeting on the growth of breast and ovarian cancers, STING signaling, and compartmentalization in gene activation.