Mangelsdorf wins international Luft Award for endocrinology research
DALLAS – Feb. 28, 2012 – Dr. David Mangelsdorf, chairman of pharmacology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been awarded the 2012 Rolf Luft Award for research that has advanced understanding of nuclear receptor pathways. Dr. David Mangelsdorf The annual award from the Karolinska Institutet, the prestigious medical university in Sweden which is also home [...]
Pioneering diabetes research earns UTSW scientist state’s top honor for medicine
DALLAS – Jan. 12, 2012 – Dr. Philipp Scherer, director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was recognized today as a rising star in Texas research by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST). Dr. Philipp Scherer Dr. Scherer, professor of internal medicine and cell biology [...]
Major variation in bladder cancer subtype trends highlights need for focused research
Wiley-Blackwell Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of the disease. A major study of nearly 128,000 American bladder cancer cases, published in the January edition of the urology journal BJUI, shows that [...]
Will the LA Times Story Have a Chilling Effect on Education Research?
Could the LA Times‘ decision to publish teachers’ value-added scores have a chilling effect on school research? That question came to me as I read about a case in Arizona. Arizona officials are seeking the names of teachers and schools that took part in a study of the state’s policies on teaching English, even though [...]