2016 Article Archive
Schools’ doors open wide through HPREP
HPREP is the Medical Center’s “academically challenging enrichment program that offers minority and underrepresented high-school students a glimpse of education and career opportunities in health care professions.
AAMC leader touts diversity’s ‘escalator to opportunity’ at MLK event
Dr. Marc Nivet lives one mile from the invisible line that divides Washington, D.C., from Arlington, Virginia, but that short distance makes a world of difference in educational quality for his 11-year-old son.
Physical Therapy student earns MLK Community Service Award
Michael Braitsch, a student the Doctor of Physical Therapy program, has received the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship for Community Service Award in recognition of his many volunteering endeavors.
Tumor-suppressing gene works by restraining mobile genetic elements that can lead to genomic instability
The most commonly mutated gene in cancer, p53, works to prevent tumor formation by keeping mobile elements in check that otherwise lead to genomic instability, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
Study identifies how certain drugs alter the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells, revealing a new therapeutic target
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that cancer drugs known as CDK4/6-inhibitors alter the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells, revealing a biologic vulnerability that could be exploited for therapeutic gain.
Simmons Cancer Center Director, Associate Dean named Chief Scientific Officer for CPRIT
Dr. James K.V. Willson, Associate Dean of Oncology Programs, and Professor and Director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been named Chief Scientific Officer of CPRIT.
Awards for December 2015
Federal, non-federal, and industry-sponsored grants awarded to UT Southwestern faculty in December 2015.
Diversity manager receives 2015 DiversityFIRST Award
Merridth Simpson, Manager of Diversity & Inclusion in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and Equal Opportunity, recently was awarded the 2015 DiversityFIRST Award by Texas Diversity Council.
Black Men in White Coats
While serving as a resident at Duke and pondering his young son’s future, as well as his own life experiences, Dale Okorodudu, M.D., began thinking a lot about how he could inspire his son and other young minorities to consider medicine as a career.
Researchers identify process that causes chronic neonatal lung disease
Pediatric researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a key component of the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a devastating and sometimes fatal lung disease that affects premature infants.