INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT Healthcare
North Texas’s Own
UT Southwestern
is Pioneering Medicine
Dr. Adi Gazdar, who holds the W. Ray Wallace
Distinguished Chair in Molecular Oncology Research
A
young woman in a room bathed
with natural light in the Southwestern Medical District rests in Dallas. Her
body is fighting a disease with the help
of a drug whose key building blocks
were discovered by a researcher hard
at work within the same institution.
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Her physician, part of a care team that is advancing the way medicine is delivered not only in North
Texas, but also for patients across the country, was
trained in this same system. For her, this care is
life-saving. For the population of North Texas, UT
Southwestern Medical Center is a knowledge destination with unparalleled resources.
From advanced medical facilities such as the new
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, to
graduate students that rank among the best and the
brightest, to scientific discoveries that are shaping
the way the art of medicine impacts human lives,
UT Southwestern is changing lives for the better.