2015 Article Archive
Newsmakers
Dr. Amit Pandya, Professor of Dermatology, has been awarded the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award.
Medical center’s expertise offered on new communications platform
UT Southwestern Medical Center launched a new venture in early February as co-publisher with the Texas Tribune of a health care newsletter called Trib+Health.
Billings named VP for Development
Amanda Billings, who led UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Office of Development during the Building the Future of Medicine fundraising campaign for the new William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, has been named Vice President for Development.
Mobile Cancer Survivor Clinic brings expertise to doorstep of underserved cancer survivors
UT Southwestern’s Moncrief Cancer Institute and Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center debuted the Mobile Cancer Survivor Clinic − a custom, fully equipped 18-wheeler that can deliver follow-up and screening services to cancer survivors.
New cancer treatments could evolve from research showing that acetate supplements speed up cancer growth
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers seeking novel ways to combat cancer found that giving acetate, a major compound produced in the gut by host bacteria, to mice sped up the growth and metastasis of tumors.
MAGE genes provide insight into optimizing chemotherapy, cancer researchers find
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a new biomarker that could help identify patients who are more likely to respond to certain chemotherapies.
UTSW holds large career fair on February 28
With the opening of the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital and unprecedented growth as the premier academic medical center in North Texas, UT Southwestern held a campus-wide career fair on Saturday, February 28.
Researchers find new mechanism that controls immune responses
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a common signaling mechanism to produce interferon − one of the main proteins used to signal the immune system when the body needs to defend itself against a virus, tumor, or other diseases.
UTSW receives key NCI funding to plan first U.S. Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy Research
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health awarded UT Southwestern a $1 million planning grant to establish the country’s first National Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy.
Study finds no reason for cancer survivors to be excluded in advanced stage lung cancer trials
The common practice of excluding patients with a prior cancer diagnosis from lung cancer clinical trials may not be justified, according to a study by researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center.