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Southwestern Medical Foundation inspires a higher standard in innovation through early-stage research grants funded by The Cary Council. Our investments in promising research and bold ideas have led to millions of dollars in follow-on funding.

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The 2022 Docstar recipients: Dominic Moon, Robin Higashi, and Proshad Efune.
Awards, Events and Scholarships

An Evening With DocStars 2022: Photo Gallery and Recap

An Evening with DocStars 2022 photos and videos from a night to remember! This event helps support early-stage research grants awarded to promising young scientists at UT Southwestern.
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DocStars Experiment 2022: We BeLung Together

DocStars Experiment by Proshad Efune, M.D.: We BeLung Together. An interactive experiment on lung function in pediatric surgery.
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DocStars Experiment 2022: At the Bead of Light

DocStars Experiment by Dominic Moon: At the Bead of Light. An interactive experiment to show how scientists identify cancer cells.
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DocStars Experiment 2022: Home Is Where the Health Is

DocStars Experiment by Robin Higashi, Ph.D.: Improving Telehealth. An interactive experiment on improving access to healthcare at home.
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What’s Up, Doc: Introducing the 2022 DocStars at Pegasus Park

Medical Education Program honoring scholarship donors and recipients with a discussion from leading physicians and residents at UT Southwestern.
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2022 DocStars

Congratulations to this year’s “DocStars” – Proshad Efune, M.D., Robin Higashi, Ph.D., and Dominic Moon, M.D. – who all show great promise for medical innovation. Each investigator received a DocStar grant from The Cary Council, which has been providing crucial funding to advance the early-stage research of UT Southwestern young investigators since its founding in […]

April 7, 2022

Lead, Innovate, Ideate: Putting The Scientific Spotlight On Early Stage Research

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The Cary Council Learning From Leaders program brought together scientific and philanthropic leaders on March 30, 2022, to discuss the importance of early stage research.

April 1, 2022

Meet the Cary Council Early Stage Research Grant Recipients

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The Cary Council is a group of emerging young leaders who support early stage investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Meet the researchers they have supported so far.

Diabetes care

February 28, 2022

Unique Proposition to Save Money on Diabetes Care

Community

Hear from one of the team members of "DiabEZ" who participated in the 2022 Women in Science and Health Care (WISH) hackathon hosted by Health Wildcatters. Her team was awarded first place for their innovative, patch-based solution to Diabetes care.

Team DiabEZ at The Wish 2022 Hackathon

February 28, 2022

Female Entrepreneurs Hope To Improve Lives With Innovative Diabetes Care

Community

Hear from one of the team members of "DiabEZ" who participated in the 2022 Women in Science and Health Care (WISH) hackathon hosted by Health Wildcatters. Her team was awarded first place for their innovative, patch-based solution to diabetes care.

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