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Children’s Health and UT Southwestern break ground on new Dallas pediatric campus, announce $100 million donation from The Rees-Jones Foundation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2024/oct-pediatric-campus-donation.html
Groundbreaking and donation for the $5 billion campus marks new era of transformative pediatric care in North Texas and beyond.
UT Southwestern campaign infuses $1B into Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/obi-philanthropic-campaign.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center has completed a five-year, $1 billion campaign to fuel its commitment to advance brain research and clinical care at its Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, making it one of the largest brain-focused investments at a U.S. academic medical center.
Discovery provides insight into neglected tropical disease: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/tropical-disease.html
A team led by UTSW researchers has identified a molecule produced by male parasitic worms called schistosomes that prompts sexual maturity in females of these species.
Could pancreatitis be a stress hormone deficiency?: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/pancreatitis.html
UT Southwestern researchers find that humans and mice with pancreatitis are deficient in a stress hormone called FGF21.
UTSW study provides new insight into cause of cancer deaths: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-biological-causes-cancer-deaths.html
The ultimate cause of death from cancer isn’t metastatic disease, as researchers have long surmised, but an infiltration of tumors into major blood vessels that cause blood clots and multiorgan failure, a one-of-a-kind clinical study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests.
$50M Perot family gift expands UT Southwestern’s Medical Scientist Training Program: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/november-perot-family-gift.html
The Perot family, The Perot Foundation, and The Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. Foundation have provided a transformative $50 million endowment for UT Southwestern’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), among the nation’s elite programs that provide graduates a dual M.D./Ph.D. degree to strengthen
UTSW physician volunteering at Tokyo Olympics: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/olympics.html
Dr. Stephanie Tow, M.D., completed her first week of providing volunteer care at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
New pregnancy program to boost communication within childbirth care teams: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/april-teambirth-initiative.html
A new program known as TeamBirth, launching at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital in May, aims to improve communication among all the members of a patient’s care team – an approach that could improve patient-centered maternity care and boost childbirth
Neurons in brain’s timekeeper might control nighttime hunger: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-neurons-brain-timekeeper.html
Activating specific neurons in a part of the brain that serves as the body’s master circadian pacemaker caused mice to eat significantly more during a time of day when they would normally be at rest, a UT Southwestern Medical Center study shows.
Targeted therapy helps NICU parents reframe fears
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/sept-targeted-therapy-helps-nicu-parents.html
A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program developed for parents whose child was born prematurely reduced harmful perceptions that their child remained medically fragile, according to a new study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center.