Meet Dr. Shang Ma
March 1, 2023Shang Ma, Ph.D., recently joined the institute as CRI’s 12th faculty member and principal investigator. He earned his bachelor’s degree from University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. in cellular...
Lactate Metabolism Plays an Important Role in Mitochondrial Diseases
January 11, 2023Lactate, long considered to be a waste product of energy production, has been found to fuel the metabolism of patients…
Scientists Identify a Molecular Switch That Speeds Up Muscle Repair
December 14, 2022Recovery time for muscle sprains, strains, and other soft tissue injuries could be shortened thanks to the discovery of a…
New Research Challenges Long-Standing Assumption of How Liver Cells Produce Energy
November 29, 2022Within our cells, mitochondria are responsible for converting food into energy. This works by taking electrons from the nutrients we…
Researchers find that different stem cells are responsible for the repair of different kinds of bone injuries
October 21, 2022DALLAS – Oct. 21, 2022 – New research from Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) found that different skeletal…
Researchers identify new druggable therapeutic pathway in a deadly form of brain cancer
August 18, 2022Scientists in the McBrayer lab at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have identified a metabolic pathway…
CRI Trainee Earns Prestigious NCI Fellowship
June 22, 2022Milan Savani, an M.D./Ph.D. student, is the latest CRI trainee to earn a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service F30…
