Dr. Kemp Kernstine, Professor and Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at UT Southwestern, made the clinical work possible. Dr. Kernstine holds the Robert Tucker Hayes Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. DeBerardinis is affiliated with the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and is a practicing physician and Division Director of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s Health. He also holds the Joel B. Steinberg, M.D. Chair in Pediatrics and is a Sowell Family Scholar in Medical Research at UT Southwestern.

The National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, The Welch Foundation, and donors to the Children’s Medical Center Foundation supported the research.


About CRI

Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) is a joint venture of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center Dallas, the flagship hospital of Children’s Health. CRI’s mission is to perform transformative biomedical research to better understand the biological basis of disease. Located in Dallas, Texas, CRI is home to interdisciplinary groups of scientists and physicians pursuing research at the interface of regenerative medicine, cancer biology, and metabolism. For more information visit: cri.utsw.edu. To support CRI visit: cri.utsw.edu/support/.

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