Dean’s Scholar in Clinical Research

The Dean’s Scholar in Clinical Research program provides promising early career faculty with financial resources, career guidance, research training, and protected research time to facilitate their development as successful clinical physician scientists.

Dedman Scholar Award

The Dedman Scholar Award is an endowment gifted by the Dedman Foundation that allows UT Southwestern to recruit promising early-career physicians to the medical center to be mentored by senior clinicians and clinical scientists.

Disease-Oriented Clinical Scholars (DOCS)

The goal of the Disease-Oriented Clinical Scholars (DOCS) program is to facilitate the growth of state of the art research in clinical departments at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Endowed Scholars Program in Medical Science

The Endowed Scholars Program in Medical Science provides generous financial support over four years to newly appointed tenure-track assistant professors at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Funded by private endowment, the Endowed Scholars Program has launched the research careers of 130 investigators.

Frenkel Clinical Scholars Program

The Eugene P. Frenkel, M.D., Clinical Scholars Program provides a tremendous opportunity for recently recruited faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The Program provides funding over four years to recruit and support new faculty members and promote enduring excellence in patient care in oncology.

KL2 Scholar Program

The KL2 two-year program is designed for junior faculty who show great promise toward becoming successful, independently funded clinical and translational science investigators.

NIH First

The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program aims to enhance and maintain cultures of inclusive excellence in the biomedical research community to ensure that the most creative minds have the opportunity to contribute to realizing the national research and health goals.

O’Donnell Brain Institute Scholar Programs

The Neural Scientist Training Program and the Clinical Neuroscience Scholars Program focus on the recruitment, education, mentorship, and retention of the brightest talent, reflecting a commitment to building our community, now and for the future.

Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholars Program

The Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholars Program facilitates the recruitment of outstanding clinician researchers (internal and external) to the UT Southwestern faculty.