2016 Article Archive
UTSW earns national honor for nursing excellence
UT Southwestern University Hospitals earned Magnet designation, the gold standard for nursing quality.
Researchers identify new mechanism of tuberculosis infection
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new way that tuberculosis bacteria get into the body, revealing a potential therapeutic angle to explore.
New therapeutic targets for small cell lung cancer identified
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein termed ASCL1 that is essential to the development of small cell lung cancer and that, when deleted in the lungs of mice, prevents the cancer from forming.
Brain activity and response to food cues differ in severely obese women
The brain’s reward centers in severely obese women continue to respond to food cues even after they’ve eaten and are no longer hungry, in contrast to their lean counterparts, according to a recent study by a multidisciplinary team at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
UTSW hosts Diversity Summit
Dr. Dale Okorodudu, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was honored Wednesday with a major award to cap the 2016 Greater Dallas Healthcare Diversity Summit.
Burns receives Piper Professor Award, recognizing outstanding teaching
Dr. Dennis Burns, Professor of Pathology, has received the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation’s Piper Professor Award, a prestigious honor awarded annually to 10 outstanding educators from Texas universities.
Organic Chemistry standout receives dean’s award
Liela Bayeh, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Uttam Tambar, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, recently was presented with the 2016 Dean’s Discretionary Award by Dr. Andrew Zinn, Dean of UTSW Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Awards for May 2016
Awards received by UT Southwestern Medical Center faculty in May 2016.
Awards for June 2016
Awards received by UT Southwestern Medical Center faculty in June 2016.
Stroke survivor credits life, health to comprehensive UTSW team
The migraine was brutal. But as the manager on duty at a local cosmetics department, Paige Montgomery couldn’t really leave work.