Researchers at UT Southwestern find way to help donor adult blood stem cells overcome transplant rejection

Dr. Alec Zhang, August 2011

Researchers identify compound that may provide drug therapy approach for Huntington's disease

Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, June 2011

UT Southwestern's Endowed Scholars Program bolsters independent research

Dr. Jiang Wu and Dr. Jen Liou, April 2010

UT Southwestern receives $700,000 from HHMI to promote medical education of Ph.D. students 
Dr. Helen Yin, December 2009

Department of Physiology welcomes endowed scholar
Dr. Jen Liou, Ph.D.

The Department of Physiology welcomes Dr. Jen Liou, who has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Physiology and been named an Endowed Scholar in Biomedical Research.

“Jen is a remarkable investigator who shows great promise for an outstanding independent scientific career,” said Dr. James Stull, Department Chairman.

She previously served as Research Associate in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology at the Stanford University Medical Center with Dr. Tobias Meyer.  Her focus was to identify regulators of cell calcium signaling where she found STIM1/2 as the long sought calcium sensors in the endoplasmic reticulum.  This sensor had been sought for many years and her work represented a major breakthrough that set the direction of many laboratories in the field.  An article in the Summer 2009 edition of Stanford Medicine, “Anatomy of an Experiment: Chasing Down the Cell’s Gatekeepers” describes Dr. Liou’s search and can be found here:  http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2009summer/article3.html

Dr. Liou received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California at San Francisco.  She is married to Dr. Lun Tsuei, a mechanical engineer experienced in the thin film solar and semiconductor equipment industry with multiple patents awarded.  They have two children and currently reside in Highland Park.

2009 Nominata Award Winner
Dr. Heng-Chi Lee, June/July 2009

Research reveals how cells tell time
Dr. Yi Liu, June 08, 2009

Key step in bicarbonate secretion might lead to novel cystic fibrosis treatments
Dr. Shmuel Muallem, March 2009

Researchers identify compound that frees trapped cholesterol
Dr. Joyce Repa, Jan. 26, 2009

2008 Distinguished Teacher Award Winners
Dr. George DeMartino
Dr. Kristine Kamm

2008 Postdoctoral Poster Session and Symposium Award Winners
Dr. Brajesh Kumar, Grand Prize

2008 Society for Neuroscience Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award Winner
Thi Tran

2008 Fine Science Tools Travel Award Winners
Terina Martinez
Omar Nelson

'Deranged calcium signaling' contributes to neurological disorder, researchers find
Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, Nov. 25, 2008

Peripheral Inflammation Exacerbates CNS Dysfunction
Dr. Malú Tansey, Oct. 28, 2008

Dr. John Vanatta in memoriam, May 29, 2008
UT Southwestern tribute to Dr. Vanatta

Youxing Jiang new HHMI Investigator

UT Southwestern faculty members named Howard Hughes investigators
Dr. Youxing Jiang, May 27, 2008

2007 Postdoctoral Poster Session and Symposium Award Winners
Dr. Joseph Yuan, Grand Prize

2007 Society for Neuroscience Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award Winners
Dr. Tamy Frank-Cannon

2007 Graduate Student Organization Poster Session and 39th Annual SX Award Winners
Heng-Chi Lee, Top Five and Best of Show

2007 64th Joint Annual Meeting of Beta Kappa Chi/National Institute of Science
Omar Nelson, First Place for the best graduate student presentation

Prioritizing speed
Dr. P. Robin Hiesinger, Nov., 2007

UT Southwestern's obesity research receives $22 million NIH Roadmap grant
Dr. Joyce Repa, Sep. 6, 2007

Drug protects brain cells in Huntington's disease model, researchers find
Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, July 24, 2007

Autism-related proteins control nerve excitability, researchers find
Drs. Jay Gibson, Ege Kavalali, June 20, 2007

2006 Postdoctoral Poster Session and Symposium Award Winners
Dr. Joonseok Cha, Honorable Mention

Test reveals effectiveness of potential Huntington's disease drugs
Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, Oct. 30, 2006

Nikon's Small World Gallery Honorable Mention
Dr. P. Robin Hiesinger, Sep. 21, 2006

Hard-wiring the fruit fly's visual system
Dr. P. Robin Hiesinger, Sep. 20, 2006

Pre-clinical study finds Parkinson's cell death blocked by stopping inflammatory factor
Dr. Malú Tansey, Sep. 12, 2006

A Way to Slow Parkinson's?
Dr. Malú Tansey, Sep. 12, 2006

Presenilins Open Escape Hatch for ER Calcium
Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, Sep. 9, 2006

Foundation Awards $2.6 Million for Development of Progressive Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease
Dr. Malú Tansey, June 27, 2006

National Leadership Program Names New Class of Fellows
Dr. Helen Yin, May 30, 2006

2006 McKnight Scholar Awardees
Dr. Youxing Jiang, May 2006

Biologists Cite Way to Multiply Blood Stem Cells; Cambridge Reasearch May Aid Bone MArrow Transplant
Dr. Chengcheng (Alec) Zhang, Jan. 23, 2006

Feedback loop found that could forestall liver disease
Dr. Joyce Repa, Oct. 11, 2005

Award-winning professor returns to class as student
Dr. George Ordway, September, 2005

'Vicious cycle' of protein formation involved in Parkinson's disease
Dr. Philip Thomas, June 21, 2005

Health Watch -- Research Roundup: Huntington's Disease
Health Watch -- Understanding Huntington's Disease
Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, March 2005

New research questions basic tenet of neuron function
Dr. Ege Kavalali, Feb. 16, 2005

Drug treatment shows promise for preventing nerve death in lab studies of Huntington's disease
Drs. Ilya Bezprozvanny, Tie-Shan Tang, Jan. 31, 2005

2004 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
Dr. Youxing Jiang

Researchers discover transport molecule that allows boron into cells
Dr. Shmuel Muallem, Nov. 4, 2004

Protein controls acid in cells by direct detection of volume changes, study finds 
Dr. Donald Hilgemann, July 5, 2004

Health Watch -- Dead Cells
Dr. Donald Hilgemann, July 2004

Bacteria spill their guts to aid researchers in quest for new antibiotics
Dr. Paul Blount, June 28, 2004

Searle Scholars program awards $240,000 to UT Southwestern researcher
Dr. Youxing Jiang, April 26, 2004

UT Southwestern researchers reveal mechanisms of smooth-muscle contraction
Drs. James Stull, Kris Kamm, April 5, 2004

Liu receives recognition for biological clock work
Dr. Yi Liu, March 27, 2004

Researchers reveal function of calcium transport protein that regulates heartbeat frequency, strength
Dr. Donald Hilgemann, Feb. 5, 2004

Scientists design novel proteins that block inflammation regulator associated with rheumatoid arthritis
Dr. Malú Tansey, Sep. 26, 2003

Medical center, private investors form company to develop new drugs
Dr. Philip Thomas, Sep. 16, 2003

Main regulator of membrane trafficking not what researchers once thought, scientists discover
Dr. Helen Yin, Aug. 8, 2003

Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $200,000 to Tansey
Dr. Malu Tansey, July, 2003

Scientists identify link between neuronal calcium channel, mutated gene that causes Huntington's disease
Drs. Ilya Bezprozvanny, Tie-Shan Tang, Huiping Tu, July 17, 2003

Huntington's Study Focuses on Calcium Levels 
Dr. Ilya Bezprozvanny, July 17, 2003

UT Southwestern researchers locate tumor-suppressor gene in fruit flies that controls
Dr. Duojia Pan, July 16, 2003

Welch Foundation awards nearly $2 million in grants to 13 UT Southwestern scientists
Drs. Ilya Bezprozvanny, Yi Liu, Philip Thomas,  July 16, 2003

George Ordway selected for Arthur C. Guyton Award
Education Outreach: Taking the “Fire” Beyond the Lecture Hall and Lab
Dr. George Ordway, April, 2003

NIH Renews Longest-Running Research Grant
Drs. Jere Mitchell, James Stull, Nov. 7, 2002

Bashour Lecture - 2002  

Bashour Lecture - 2001  

First-year medical students chose George Ordway, associate professor of physiology, as outstanding high-exposure teacher. June, 2001

Tumor-suppressor Genes Linked to Insulin Signaling
Drs. Duojia Pan, Xinsheng Gao, June 1, 2001

Gift Establishes Bullock Chair
Dr. George Ordway, March 14, 2001

UT Southwestern, Korean Researchers Link Bicarbonate Transport to Cystic Fibrosis
Dr. Shmual Muallem, March 1, 2001

UT Southwestern researchers find possible link between enzyme and progression of fatal childhood disease
Dr. James T. Stull, Dec. 5, 2000

Researchers learn how degradation of proteins changes muscles during exercise
Dr. George Ordway, March 17, 2000

Discovery of how protein changes shape could lead to new cancer-fighting drugs
Dr. Helen Yin, Jan. 31, 2000

David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
Dr. Youxing Jiang

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