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Southwestern Medical Foundation inspires a higher standard in discovery by supporting significant medical research initiatives that have led to breakthroughs that will impact generations to come.

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Launching Innovation

An Evening with DocStars 2024: A Celebration of Innovation and Generosity

The Cary Council hosts An Evening with DocStars 2024 on the Campus of UT Southwestern, celebrating innovation in early-stage research.
Research

Graduate Student Maggie Wang Receives 2024 Ida M. Green Award for Cancer Immunotherapy Research

Maggie Wang, a graduate student in the Gao Lab, has been honored with the 2024 Ida M. Green Award for research that could advance nanoparticle-based cancer immunotherapies.
Awards, Events and Scholarships

Karolina (Karo) Stepien Receives 2021 Ida M. Green Award

Karolina (Karo) Stepien, a graduate student in the Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program, has been chosen by the Graduate Awards Committee to receive the 36th Annual Ida M. Green Award. Story courtesy of UT Southwestern.
Advancing Brain Treatment

Leading Change in Parkinson’s Research through Major Donation

Shad and Michele Rowe made a generous gift to Southwestern Medical Foundation that will help scientists decipher the workings of the human brain at the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute (OBI). The Rowes are hopeful that new discoveries will someday end the devastating toll of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s (PD) and other movement disorders.
Awards, Events and Scholarships

The Cary Council’s “An Evening with DocStars at Home” Drive-Thru Celebration

The Cary Council, a group of emerging young leaders who support the missions of Southwestern Medical Foundation and UT Southwestern Medical Center, announced grant recipients of funds raised to support early-stage research from their 2021 An Evening with DocStars at Home event, held on Saturday, May 1.
Launching Innovation

An Evening with DocStars at Home – Do or Dye by Dr. Chika Nwachukwu

Do or Dye with Dr. Chika Nwachukwu Using different dyes, Dr. Chika Nwachukwu, a previous Cary Council Early Research Grant recipient, or “DocStar,” will walk you through color-changing experiments that mimic the way HPV is detected in patient samples. This video is part of The Cary Council’s 2021 fundraising event: An Evening with DocStars at […]

May 5, 2021

Meet The Cary Council’s Early Stage Research Grant Recipients: The 2021 DocStars

Launching Innovation

The Cary Council, a group of emerging young leaders who support the missions of Southwestern Medical Foundation and UT Southwestern Medical Center, announced grant recipients of funds raised to support early-stage research from their 2021 “An Evening with DocStars at Home” event, which was held Saturday, May 1.
Photo of Dr. William T. Dauer on the campus of UT Southwestern.

April 5, 2021

The Human Connectome Project

Advancing Brain Treatment

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have joined biologists, physicians, computer scientists, and physicists from many different institutions across the U.S. to participate in the Human Connectome Project (HCP). The HCP is an ambitious effort to study and share data on the patterns of neural connections in the human brain during developmental stages, as well as in health and disease states, that could reap tremendous benefits for humanity.
International Day of Women Graphic

February 11, 2021

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science

Research

At Southwestern Medical Foundation, we have supported women in science for many years. We are proud to continue to champion the next generation of trailblazers who continue to drive innovation and progress.
Drs. Gaur and Hoffman

May 7, 2020

Thoughts from Drs. Gaur and Hoffman on the Impact of COVID-19

Advancing Public Health

Hear from two public health experts, one just beginning her career conjointly with winning The Ho Din Award, and the other with tremendous depth of experience at UT Southwestern and in Colorado.
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