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UT Southwestern marked the beginning of “a new era” on Tuesday, Dec. 3, with the opening of a specialty care facility in Frisco – one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S. Almost two weeks earlier, hundreds of community leaders, physicians, faculty, and staff gathered for a dedication ceremony of the new UT Southwestern Medical Center at Frisco, the 120,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art medical building that many have watched rise on a former hay farm since 2017.

UT Southwestern has been selected to participate in a major National Institutes of Health (NIH) push to discover new treatments and expand clinical research on Down syndrome. Dr. Beverly Rothermel, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology, will lead UTSW’s effort as Principal Investigator of a five-year research project funded by a $2 million grant.

Dr. David McFadden, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry, has received a Clinical Investigator Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation to support his investigation of the cellular metabolism of a particularly challenging type of thyroid cancer.

Student testimonial for the Master of Science in Health Informatics program at UT Southwestern.

The Global Health track introduces students to the concepts associated with promoting good health and delivering medical care in low-resource environments.

Medical students with a passion for international health care can set themselves apart by pursuing the Distinction in Global Health pathway.

Mobile view of Alumni Demographics and Postdoc Outcomes for graduate students with UT Southwestern

In 1960s and ’70s Pittsburgh, Shawna Nesbitt soon learned girls weren’t expected to be doctors – especially not black girls. Dr. Shawna Nesbitt is now Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion as well as Medical Director of the UT Southwestern-affiliated Parkland Health & Hospital System’s Hypertension Clinic.

Find out from an adviser what it takes to be an pathology.

Dr. Joseph Takahashi, noted for discovering the first gene controlling biological clocks in mammals, was awarded the Gruber Neuroscience Prize at the recent Society of Neuroscience annual meeting in Chicago. His lab is using new techniques to research how the timing of calorie intake may impact lifespan, and he believes those studies may lead to the next big discovery in his field.