2018 Article Archive

Endocrinology team suppressing glycemic incidents

 

UT Southwestern’s inpatient diabetes program has helped lower incident rates of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia to well below national levels.

Nijhawan selected to receive 2018 Seldin-Smith Award from ASCI

 

UT Southwestern’s Dr. Deepak Nijhawan became a co-recipient of the 2018 Donald Seldin-Holly Smith Award for Pioneering Research

Precision editing of gut bacteria: Potential way to treat colitis

 

UTSW researchers have used precision editing of the bacterial populations in the gut to prevent or reduce the severity of inflammation in a mouse model of colitis.

UT Southwestern selected as Patient Navigator Program: Focus MI Diplomat Hospital

 

Program aids hospitals in identifying best practices for keeping heart attack patients out of the hospital longer

UTSW researcher recognized with Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences

 

UT Southwestern Medical Center Professor Dr. Zhijian “James” Chen today became the recipient of the 2018 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for his discovery of the cGAS enzyme, a sensor of innate immunity. The enzyme patrols the cell’s interior and sounds the alarm to trigger the immune system in response to DNA.

Surgical oncologist Zeh named new Chair of Surgery

 

Dr. Herbert J. Zeh III, an innovator and leader in the field of pancreatic diseases and pancreatic cancer, has been selected as the next Chair of the Department of Surgery.