2018 Article Archive

Employees gather to cheer 75 years of UTSW at rollicking ‘party on the plaza’

 

The heart of the campus was electric with the energy and palpable joy of thousands of staff, faculty, students, and friends commemorating UT Southwestern’s 75th anniversary.

Not a cure, but an extension: How immunotherapy works for advanced lung cancer

 

In a New England Journal of Medicine study, the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab was combined with chemotherapy to determine whether the dual approach was more effective than chemotherapy alone for metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer.

UTSW genetics specialist helps mom regain her life

 

Jessica Hitt had a rare recessive genetic condition called N-acetylglutamate synthase deficiency.

Financial strain has major impact on patients’ health care decisions

 

Financial strain is the single most important factor in making health care decisions for low-income individuals, who often forgo care in favor of basic needs like food and rent, researchers in UT Southwestern’s Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) found.

UTSW investigation provides insight into potential new strategy to target skin diseases like psoriasis

 

Research at UT Southwestern has shown that targeting metabolism in growing cells holds promise for the treatment of skin diseases like psoriasis that are characterized by skin overgrowth resulting from excess cell division, known as hyperproliferation.

Advanced imaging driving CPRIT-supported projects

 

Three grants of almost $4.2 million awarded to UT Southwestern faculty members will support image-based investigations into the metabolic pathways and basic processes of heart disease, prostate cancer, and breast cancer.

Three reasons why prostate cancer genomic testing is flawed

 

While we don’t have a crystal ball at our disposal, genomic testing can be an additional help to guide patients with data. However, like any other test, there are some aspects of it that I’m not convinced are always in most patients’ best interest.

UT Southwestern joins Dallas and Texas in mourning the loss of Margaret McDermott, a rare friend and visionary

 

Margaret Milam McDermott, beloved friend, generous philanthropist, and dedicated community supporter, passed away on May 3 at the age of 106.

Cryo-EM structures of the nicotine receptor may lead to new therapies for nicotine addiction

 

UT Southwestern researchers today published in Nature atomic-scale blueprints of the most abundant class of brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A structural understanding of the protein, found in neurons, could lead to new ways to treat nicotine addiction from smoking and vaping.

Cardiologist Dr. Ambarish Pandey selected Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar

 

UT Southwestern cardiologist Dr. Ambarish Pandey has been named a Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar. Funding from this award will bolster his studies developing novel approaches to prevent heart failure and improve heart failure outcomes at a health system level.