Priddy Award

The Priddy family’s support for medical progress has spanned generations.

The late Kathryn Amsler Priddy and her husband, Ashley Horne Priddy, made recent gifts through the estate of Mrs. Priddy, which included support for Southwestern Medical Foundation through the Kathryn and Ashley H. Priddy Fund for medical student scholarships and support for UT Southwestern Medical Center through the Dr. Eugene P. Frenkel Cancer Research Fund.

In 1992, a gift from Amanda Amsler, Mrs. Priddy’s mother, and an endowment fund that honored Mr. Priddy were combined to establish the Kathryn and Ashley H. Priddy Fund at Southwestern Medical Foundation.

The Fund benefits medical education scholarships at UT Southwestern and also inspires the next generation of physicians through the Priddy Award, which funds a summer research fellowship for one outstanding high school student who participates in the Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair. This fellowship is part of STARS (Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern), which serves more than 20,000 teachers and 50,000 students in North Texas and beyond.