Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to burst during necroptosis—a form of programmed cell death.

The discovery could lead to new treatments for severe infections, inflammatory diseases, neurodegeneration, and cancer—including conditions such as Crohn’s disease, Alzheimer’s, ALS, and several tumor types.…

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Dallas-area researchers have earned three of the five 2026 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards from TAMEST (Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology), showing the region’s strength in engineering, physics, and biomedical discovery.

The Dallas honorees—two from The University of Texas at Dallas and one from UT Southwestern Medical Center—were named alongside recipients from Baylor College of Medicine and bp.…

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Interact Therapeutics, a Dallas-based cancer cell and gene therapy company with links to UT Southwestern and Pegasus Park’s BioLabs, is one of six startups selected for the second cohort of Charles River Laboratories International’s Cell & Gene Therapy Incubator Program (CIP).…

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North Texas is the newest federal front line in the fight against Alzheimer’s and dementia.

The National Institute of Health has awarded UT Southwestern a $23 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging to establish the North Texas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC).…

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Dallas-based Access TeleCare, which describes itself as the largest national provider of acute specialty telemedicine for health systems, has named Josh DeTillio as its new CEO. Th

In an expansion of the company’s leadership team, TeleCare’s founder, Dr. Chris Gallagher, MD, has taken on a new role as chief strategy officer, in which he will drive innovation, identify strategic partnerships, and plan for strategic growth

Access said the moves seek to build on recent milestones—such as achieving all-time-high clinical performance numbers and the strongest financials in the company’s history—providing a solid foundation for accelerated growth.…

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A team from UT Arlington and UT Southwestern Medical School has developed a new computational framework that could help scientists identify key proteins that drive diseases like cancer. By improving the way researchers pinpoint these gene regulators, the tool could lay groundwork for more precise treatments in the future.…

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The state of Texas is investing $25 million to support a nearly $200 million transformational greening of the Harry Hines Corridor in the Southwestern Medical District, the Dallas-based Texas Trees Foundation and its coalition partners announced.

Texas Trees Foundation CEO Janette Monear said the funding “will help us turn a heat island into a healing place beyond the footprints of the buildings in which world-class care is delivered daily within.”…

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What if cancer treatments could zero in on the bad cells—and leave the good ones alone? That’s a question scientists at UT Southwestern are asking. And according to the Dallas-based medical center, that goal may be closer to reality—thanks to research that uncovered how a little-known protein is helping some blood cancers survive.…

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To hear CEO Kartik Krishnan talk about what they’re doing at OncoNano, you might think the company is part of national defense.

“We’ve created a polymer that self-assembles, and automatically detects where it needs to release its payload,” says Krishnan, describing the Dallas-Fort Worth company’s breakthrough technology.…

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method that writes its own algorithms and may one day operate as an “automated scientist” to extract meaning from complex datasets.

“Our work is the first step in allowing researchers to use AI to directly convert complex data into new human-understandable insights,” said Milo Lin, Ph.D.,…

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Children’s Health in Dallas announced the appointment of Dane Peterson as chief operating officer of the leading pediatric healthcare system and top children’s hospital in North Texas.

“Dane joins us at a pivotal time of growth for North Texas and Children’s Health.…

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“The only way we’re going to get ahead of all these hospitalizations is to intervene sooner.”

Andy Keller
President and CEO
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
.…on how to tackle mental health issues impacting Texas children and adolescents, via the Dallas Morning News.…

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Subtle changes in the way people speak could help doctors diagnose cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease—even before symptoms begin to show. 

That’s according to a new study led a UT Southwestern researcher, working with a research team at Emory University in Atlanta.…

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The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas approved over $90 million in new cancer research and prevention grants at its quarterly meeting near the Texas Capitol on Wednesday—and $20.6 million of that money is coming to North Texas.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center received 10 different grants totaling $14.6 million to advance everything from breast cancer and lung cancer screening to “deep learning models” to facilitate T-cell receptor therapies.…

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A new 135,000-square-foot lab and office building may be coming to the Biotech+ Hub at Pegasus Park. The two-story expansion—Bridge Labs—would be located adjacent to the 37,000-square-foot BioLabs facility, which opened in 2022.

The Pegasus Park campus serves as an epicenter for North Texas’ life science ecosystem. …

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Last month, we told you about MedCognetics getting FDA clearance for its artificial intelligence-enabled software for breast cancer screening. Today, the Dallas-based company announced it has been awarded $750,000 from a National Institutes of Health program to research AI for breast cancer detection.…

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UT Southwestern has a workforce of nearly 23,000 with a full-time faculty of more than 2,900. And its physicians, who care for over 100,000 hospitalized patients and 360,000 emergency room cases, oversee nearly 4 million outpatient visits a year.

As one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers, nurturing employees for management and leadership roles is mission-critical. …

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Can artificial intelligence help detect breast cancers early on, improving outcomes for a diverse group of patients? That’s the goal of an advanced AI software platform from Dallas-based MedCognetics—and last week it received a key clearance from the U.S Food and Drug Administration.…

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