Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern

05/19/2026

ONLINE NOW in Cell: Ly Lab has discovered large pieces of DNA can transfer directly between human cells & that DNA can persist, change how the recipient cell functions. Read more about this ➡️ https://cri.utsw.edu/human-cells-can-exchange-genomic-dna/

05/07/2026

: Been a week since Greg Mannino from Zhu Lab successfully defended! Congrats, Dr. Mannino 😎 and best of luck continuing the as a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis.

05/05/2026

We already thought Hao Zhu hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, Roxanne Khamsi (author). Watch out 🤓

04/29/2026

A proud moment today as three UT Southwestern faculty members – Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D., Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D., and Joel Elmquist, D.V.M., Ph.D. – are elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors in science.

UT Southwestern now has 27 National Academy of Sciences members – more than all other institutions in Texas and the most in UT Southwestern history. Please join us in congratulating these three exceptional scientists, whose research is advancing knowledge in molecular biology, cancer metabolism, and neuroscience, and driving innovation for patients and the future of medicine.

04/29/2026

ONLINE NOW in Nature Metabolism: McBrayer Lab & first-author Milan Savini, Ph.D., have discovered cell maturity determines pyrimidine synthesis pathway preference using their new nitrogen metabolism profiling platform, organoid model. Read more ⬇️
https://cri.utsw.edu/cell-maturity-determines-pyrimidine-synthesis-pathway-preference/

McBrayer Lab uses their new nitrogen metabolism profiling platform, organoid model to discover modification of enzyme CAD activates de novo pathway A cell’s development stage intrinsically determines its use of de novo and salvage pathways to synthesize pyrimidine nucleotides – building blocks o...

04/28/2026

🌟From the desk of CRI Director Sean Morrison: It's a great day for CRI, which now has 2 members of National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations to Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D., and his laboratory on this recognition for the quality and impact of their work!

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today elected three UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists into its membership. Election to the NAS is one of the highest honors in the United States for American scientists.

04/06/2026

Had a moment last week when Omer Yilmaz, Ph.D., came to speak about his for the CRI Speaker Series. Omer's ice bucket from Morrison Lab made the move from Ann Arbor to Dallas and is still being used two decades later!

03/30/2026

Congrats, Julia!! (a former Morrison Lab researcher)

From : Behind every successful Match Day are faculty, mentors, and advisors 💙 We’re so grateful for all that you do to support and guide our students to this moment.

03/09/2026

Learn more about CRI's newest investigator Henry De Belly, Ph.D., and his to define the molecular controls of membrane fluidity in order to influence immune and cell function. 👉 https://cri.utsw.edu/meet-dr-henry-de-belly/

03/05/2026

ONLINE now in Cell Press: A review by CRI's Zhu Lab about their and how somatic mutations are becoming a key discovery engine for disease genetics. Read more ⬇️
https://cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00119-4