2016 Article Archive

SWAT’s Education Week delivers messaging tips, campus events

 

Speaking to attendees of the SWAT Educational Symposium, Dr. Evonne Kaplan-Liss said educators need to understand that learning to “distill your message” can make a critical difference in reaching an audience.

Mitosis discovery helps Genetics, Development and Disease researcher Ji win 2016 recognition

 

Six years ago, Zhejian Ji left his native China for the first time and traveled to Texas in pursuit of a lifelong goal – to become a scientist.

Texan is first adult in U.S. to receive updated stem cell transplant for leukemia treatment

 

Texan Chuck Dandridge became the first adult in the U.S. to receive a newly modified stem cell transplant that uses genetically engineered blood cells from a family member, announced researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Harold C. Simmons Comp

Cancer researchers find up to one-quarter of lung cancer patients may be ineligible for immunotherapy

 

A significant proportion of lung cancer patients also have autoimmune disease, which may make them unsuitable for increasingly popular immunotherapy treatments, a team of researchers at UT Southwestern's Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center have found.

Study shows Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection

 

The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to become neurons, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.

Saluting our newest graduates

 

The UT Southwestern Medical School conferred degrees upon more than 230 new graduates June 1 in a Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center packed to the rafters with faculty members, friends and relatives of the Class of 2016.

UTSW physicians first in Texas to transplant lungs using new technology to make more organs viable

 

Transplant surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center have performed the first lung transplant in Texas using donated lungs treated with new technology known as ex-vivo lung perfusion.

Once again, United to Serve hits community mark

 

United to Serve, the community service event led by students at UT Southwestern, recently assisted more than 180 Dallas-area families, many of whom annually set aside the day for the opportunity to receive medical information and attention.

Pan returns to lead Department of Physiology

 

Dr. Duojia Pan, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, returned to UT Southwestern on June 1 to become the new Chairman of the Department of Physiology.

Newsmakers

 

Dr. Jay Horton, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition as well as Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics, has been awarded the Frontiers in Science Award from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.