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December 23, 2025

Loss of vitamin C synthesis protects animals from schistosomiasis

Agathocleous Lab, collaborators discover vitamin C deficiency can benefit animals by depriving vitamin from parasitic worms …

November 6, 2025

Zhu Lab shows location matters for liver cancer’s origins

Hepatocellular carcinoma arises primarily in zone 3 due to glutathione transferase genes that help…

Metabolism

November 6, 2025

DeBerardinis Lab discovers protein regulating balance between purine nucleotide production pathways

NUDT5 suppresses de novo purine biosynthesis through PPAT interaction, affects thiopurine sensitivity The protein…

February 8, 2021

New vulnerability discovered in chemotherapy-resistant small cell lung cancer

Researchers from the DeBerardinis lab have found a new metabolic liability in chemotherapy-resistant small cell lung …

February 1, 2021

Hao Zhu receives Mark Foundation for Cancer Research 2021 Emerging Leader Award

Hao Zhu, M.D., an associate professor at CRI, was one of seven researchers selected by the …

January 4, 2021

Researchers uncover a potential treatment for an aggressive form of lung cancer

Researchers at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a new …

November 10, 2020

Sam McBrayer awarded grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research

Dr. Sam McBrayer, an assistant professor at CRI, received the V Foundation for Cancer Research’s V …

October 29, 2020

The possibility of immunotherapy for liver cancer prevention

Chronic liver damage raises the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) – the most common type …

October 19, 2020

Cancer metabolism researcher Ralph DeBerardinis elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern …

September 23, 2020

Sean Morrison presented with Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award

UT Southwestern’s Postdoctoral Association (PDA) has selected Dr. Sean Morrison, director of Children’s Medical Center Research …

September 7, 2020

Researchers show how mutations in DNA packaging machines cause cancer

Like wrenches made of Legos, SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes tighten or loosen DNA in our cells …

August 19, 2020

Lymph protects metastasizing melanoma cells from ferroptosis

For decades, physicians have known that many kinds of cancer cells often spread first to lymph …

Cancer Biology

May 15, 2020

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Loss of vitamin C synthesis protects animals from schistosomiasis

Zhu Lab shows location matters for liver cancer’s origins

DeBerardinis Lab discovers protein regulating balance between purine nucleotide production pathways

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New vulnerability discovered in chemotherapy-resistant small cell lung cancer

Hao Zhu receives Mark Foundation for Cancer Research 2021 Emerging Leader Award

Researchers uncover a potential treatment for an aggressive form of lung cancer

Sam McBrayer awarded grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research

The possibility of immunotherapy for liver cancer prevention

Cancer metabolism researcher Ralph DeBerardinis elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Sean Morrison presented with Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award

Researchers show how mutations in DNA packaging machines cause cancer

Lymph protects metastasizing melanoma cells from ferroptosis

CRI graduate student Divya Bezwada receives 2020 Ida M. Green Award

Sean Morrison, Director of CRI elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences

CRI postdoctoral fellow Brandon Faubert receives NIH Pathway to Independence Award

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