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Philipp Scherer, associate director of UT Southwestern's Nutrition Obesity Research Center, delivers a President's Lecture Series exploration of obesity. [Photo: UTSW]

UT Southwestern Is Selected as One of 12 NIH Obesity Research Centers

by | Sep 28, 2022
Over 150 scientists across dozens of departments will be part of the elite National Institutes of Health-funded, university-wide interdisciplinary research center. Dallas' UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only institution in Texas to be selected for the NIH initiative.

UTSW wants to translate scientific discoveries into new therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity, which it describes as a chronic disease affecting more than 40% of the U.S. population, with medical costs nearing $175 billion.
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The Last Word: UTSW’s Dr. Jaclyn Albin on How Culinary Medicine May Cure What Ails You
by | Sep 12, 2022
From obesity to cardiovascular disease, we live in an era of unprecedented diet-related health problems. But Dr. Albin, who leads the Culinary Medicine program at UT Southwestern, and her team are trying to cook up a solution by reviewing programs at medical schools across the U.S. The review of programs by UT Southwestern researchers has been published in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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CPRIT Is Funding the Development of Products That Fight Cancer
by | Sep 6, 2022
The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas has provided more than $3.1 billion in funding toward the development of cancer-fighting therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and tools since 2010. It's now issued a call for startups and early-stage companies to apply for product development research grants for the 2023 fiscal year. “CPRIT’s mission is to invest in the research prowess of Texas institutions while expediting breakthroughs in cancer cures and prevention,” CEO Wayne Roberts said last May.
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UT Southwestern Opens Clinic at RedBird in Southern Dallas
by | Aug 29, 2022
UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird is a new, 150,000-square-foot hospital that instantly becomes a core feature of the redeveloped Redbird Mall. Located in a former Sears store, the new hospital marks the first time UTSW has transformed a former retail space into a regional medical center. “In RedBird, we recognized an opportunity to expand our footprint in Dallas and to have a vital presence in a community that has traditionally been underserved by the health care industry," said UTSW's Dr. Marc Nivet.
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Qualia Oto Lands New Funding for Its Mission to Restore Hearing in Patients

by | Jul 20, 2022
UT Dallas-based Qualia Oto is developing the next generation of cochlear implants, and has announced closing a Series A preferred round of around $1.64 million. Unlike typical cochlear implants that use bundles of wires attached to a receiver to stimulate the auditory nerve, Qualia Oto’s implant uses thin-film electrode arrays embedded in a polymer, allowing for more contact with the inner ear. That translates to a higher quality and range of sounds that are able to be transmitted.
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Dallas-Founded Biopharma Firm Raises $120M to Expand its Pipeline
by | Jun 29, 2022
ReCode Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical startup using a non-viral lipid nanoparticle delivery platform for gene therapies, has closed a $120 million extension to a funding round it raised last year to help bring its lead programs to human trials and “follow the science” to target new diseases. With a research team working out of BioLabs' life sciences facility at Pegasus Park, ReCode aims to grow its global team from about 70 to 100 over the next year.
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DI People: Match Group, Island, UT Southwestern, BBG, and More Announce Leadership Moves
by | May 6, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator, Divurgent, IKS Health, Invitation Homes, Comerica, New Friends New Life, Lennox, Trademark Property, Golden State Foods, and Catapult Health.
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UT Dallas, UT Southwestern Break Ground on TI-Funded Bioengineering Facility

by | Nov 15, 2021
The $120 million Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Building, supported by a gift from Dallas-based Texas Instruments, will focus on advancing transformational bioengineering research that can find solutions to unmet medical needs. It's set to open in 2023.
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UT Southwestern Team Awarded $8.8M to Participate in Genomic Variation Consortium
by | Oct 25, 2021
The team is led by UTSW assistant professor Gary Hon, Ph.D., who developed Mosaic-seq, a gene engineering technique that helped lead to the grant award. UTSW will now become a research partner in a new $185M National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to build on findings of the Human Genome Project.
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The Future of Medical Education
by | Oct 8, 2021
Learn the ways medical school classrooms are looking more and more futuristic by incorporating simulation learning into their curriculums.
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Dallas ‘DocStars’ on COVID and Pregnancy, Cancer and Spine Studies, and Working Till Midnight on Early-Stage Research
by | Oct 4, 2021
In partnership with the Southwestern Medical Foundation, the Cary Council awarded $50K grants to each of its three 2021 young "DocStars." On a recent "What's Up Doc?" virtual event, the young investigators spoke about how their research projects are going, what they hope to achieve—and why the seed grants are a catalyst for medical innovation.
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How These Married Dallas Physicians Launched a First-of-its-Kind Medical Education Platform and Podcast

by | Mar 3, 2021
Aaron Fritts, an interventional radiologist, and Gopi Shah, an otolaryngologist, co-founded BackTable in 2016 as a platform for the exchange of ideas, with the hope that it would propel healthcare into the future. Since, the startup has grown to include a podcast that has skyrocketed during the pandemic in terms of demand, scope of expertise, and impact.
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UTSW’s Children’s Medical Research Institute Discovers Why Exercise Helps Build New Bones and Improve Immune Function
by | Feb 24, 2021
The scientist's research indicates that exercise can reverse thin bones caused by old age, highlighting the importance of older patients staying active.
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A UT Southwestern Machine Learning Algorithm Finds COVID-19 Cases Significantly Higher Than Reported
by | Feb 8, 2021
Researchers in the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics have estimated that the amount of COVID-19 cases is nearly triple those confirmed in the U.S.
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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Gives $5M to University of Texas Institutions to Expand Its Entrepreneurship Program
by | Jan 26, 2021
The Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurship program, which has been at UT Dallas since 2016, is opening to a more diverse range of students by expanding to six new campuses. Locally, that includes UT Southwestern.
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