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UT Southwestern Medical Center has been selected to operate the new Texas Behavioral Health Center – the first state acute care behavioral health hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth area – announcing plans to care for its first patients this summer.

UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s HealthSM today announced that Goldman Sachs has committed philanthropic support to the new $5 billion joint pediatric campus under construction in Dallas’ Southwestern Medical District, across from UTSW’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital.

UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Health announced a $25 million gift from the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation, directed through Southwestern Medical Foundation, in support of their $5 billion transformative joint pediatric campus under construction in Dallas’ Southwestern Medical District

Most days, neurologist Sasha Alick-Lindstrom, M.D., M.P.H., FAAN, FACNS, FAES, can be found staring at rows of brain signals on multiple computer screens, inspecting the squiggly lines for any irregularities or spikes of electrical activity.

Eric Olson, Ph.D., founding Chair and Professor of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the 2025 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.

Samuel Achilefu, Ph.D., inaugural Chair of Biomedical Engineering at UT Southwestern Medical Center and an internationally recognized leader in the fields of molecular imaging of cancer and nanotherapeutics, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Duojia Pan, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Physiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Joshua Mendell, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Steven McKnight, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

A genetic mutation that fuses two genes drives several different cancer types by forming networks of protein interactions that alter gene expression in cells, a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is the first facility in Dallas and the surrounding region to participate in the international COLCORONA trial.