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Furry friends among volunteers honored at annual Luncheon

Two of UT Southwestern’s leading female faculty members – Drs. Helen Hobbs and Carole Mendelson – will receive 2018 Laureate Awards from the Endocrine Society later this month.

Ellen Heck honored as innovator at forefront of tissue banking

Three UT Southwestern physician-scientists hope awards from the Harrington Discovery Institute will further their research, eventually leading to new drugs for difficult-to-treat diseases. The faculty members are among 10 researchers nationwide selected for 2019 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Awards.

Athletes, rest easy: Extreme exercise does not raise heart disease risk or mortality

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three UTSW students receive MLK community service scholarships