2018 Article Archive
Hobbs awarded Institut de France Grand Prix for cholesterol work
UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist Dr. Helen Hobbs is the 2018 recipient of the Institut de France Grand Prix Scientifique.
Tu named finalist for innovative metabolism research
UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Benjamin Tu has been selected as one of 31 finalists for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists for his innovative studies of molecules that could help improve treatments for cancer and conditions associated with aging.
Chelsea Hepler: Nominata Award
Fourth-year graduate student Chelsea Hepler has capped a momentous spring by winning the 2018 Nominata Award, the most prestigious honor for research by a student in the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Phil Tolley recognized with 2018 Ho Din Award
Dr. Phil Tolley recognized with 2018 Ho Din Award
UT Southwestern leads expert consortium refining prognosis of invasive kidney cancer
The nationally recognized Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center led a team of investigators who identified a new way to help doctors determine the prognosis for patients with stage 3 kidney cancer, which has important implications for decisions about surgery and inclusion in clinical trials.
DeBerardinis named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Dr. Ralph DeBerardinis, Professor at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI), today became the University’s newest Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.
UT Southwestern surgeons among world’s first to repair aortic arch aneurysm with leading-edge technique
James Isbon was the second patient in the United States and the seventh in the world to have an aneurysm, or bulge, in the aortic arch above his heart repaired in a novel and minimally invasive way.
Peters awarded for pediatric urology research excellence
Dr. Craig A. Peters, Professor of Urology and Chief of Pediatric Urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, received the John W. Duckett, Jr., MD Pediatric Urology Research Excellence Award, which honors a physician-scientist or researcher for outstanding work in pediatric urology.
Science in the City event opens brain lab doors to the public
Dallas-area residents and their children got a rare, inside peek into some of the cutting-edge research taking place at UT Southwestern when the University opened the doors of its labs for the recent Science in the City.