2018 Article Archive
UT Southwestern receives national excellence in diversity award
UT Southwestern Medical Center has received the 2018 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
Stem cell biologist Sean Morrison elected to the National Academy of Medicine
UT Southwestern Professor Dr. Sean Morrison, Director of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) at UT Southwestern, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Scientists unexpectedly reprogram mature mouse neurons
UT Southwestern researchers attempting to transform supporting brain cells into neurons instead reprogrammed mature inhibitory neurons into a different type of neuron that creates the neurotransmitter lost in Parkinson’s disease.
Reversing Paralysis: Stem cell therapy aims to repair spinal cords afflicted by rare disorder
By injecting patients with stem cells engineered to repair the central nervous system – called progenitor cells – UT Southwestern scientists are working to establish the first treatment that can repair spinal cords inflamed by transverse myelitis.
Clements University Hospital recognized for quality, safety achievement
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital has again received a national Rising Star Award for improved quality and safety efforts, ranking it within the country’s top 25 academic medical center hospitals.
Scientists tap into human cellular network: Eavesdropping on fat cells may hold solutions for diabetes
Researchers have long known that cells in the human body communicate with one another. Now a team of scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center is hacking into this communication network to learn how fat cells talk with other cells and tissues in the body.
New mom: I have to live for my son
Meredith Greenstreet's son was not quite a year old when she learned she had an aggressive form of lymphoma.
