Researcher Wins Breakthrough Prize for Innate Immunity Discovery

UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian “James” Chen today was named winner of the prestigious 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his discovery of the cGAS enzyme that launches the body’s immune defense against infections and cancers....
17-Oct-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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.
16-Oct-2018 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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...
15-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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.
11-Oct-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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...
8-Oct-2018 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Clements University Hospital recognized for quality, safety achievement

William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital has received a national Rising Star Award for improved quality and safety efforts, ranking it within the country’s top 25 academic medical center hospitals.
5-Oct-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Drinking more water reduces bladder infections in women

Drinking an additional 1.5 liters of water daily can reduce recurring bladder infections in premenopausal women by nearly half, a yearlong study of otherwise healthy women with a history of repeated infections has found.
3-Oct-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Faculty members awarded prestigious NIH research awards

Two UT Southwestern faculty members have been awarded prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Awards for high-risk, high-reward research.
2-Oct-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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