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UT Southwestern’s Division of Child Neurology provides comprehensive care, training, and research.

UT Southwestern's Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism evaluates, diagnoses, and treats children with genetic disorders.

Nearly half of current hospital admissions for heart failure are caused by a type of the disease with no treatment options. Cardiology researchers at UT Southwestern are changing that reality with a fresh approach, detailed in an article recently published in Nature.

Col. Beals, a 1995 graduate of UT Southwestern Medical School, leads the 60th Medical Group-David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in California. The first female commander of the largest medical center in the U.S. Air Force, Col. Beals completed her five-year general surgery residency in 2000 at Grant Medical Center.

UT Southwestern’s Division of Child Neurology conducts a variety of neurologic bench/basic research and clinical studies, including clinical trials.

Five UT Southwestern graduate students have been awarded three-year grants from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or GRFP.

Two new buildings to serve UT Southwestern’s ongoing growth in the high-priority areas of brain research and cancer patient care were celebrated at a groundbreaking June 4 on North Campus.

The UT Southwestern President’s Research Council (PRC), a group of community members committed to learning about and advancing medical research at UT Southwestern, annually contributes funding to support the work of early career faculty. This year, the PRC selected two former trainees who are now faculty members – Dr. Rodney Infante and Dr. Chad Newton – to receive Distinguished Researcher Awards.

Advancements being made by a gene therapy program at UT Southwestern where leading experts are engineering innovative treatments for some of the world’s rarest neurological diseases. By inserting healthy genes missing from patients’ DNA, scientists are looking to develop lifesaving treatments for children who suffer from rare genetic conditions that are traditionally difficult to treat.

Neuro-Oncology Research The Neuro-oncology section has a robust portfolio of basic science and clinical research. Five of our faculty members maintain extramural funding and have a national reputation for advancing the understanding of malignant tumors of the CNS. Clinical research activities focus o…