Lauren Averett Byers, professor of thoracic/head & neck medical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, received the 2025 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Medicine from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology. The award recognizes her fundamental discoveries and contributions to identifying novel therapeutic strategies for small cell lung cancer, which have paved the way for personalized treatments, even in the most highly recalcitrant cancers.
Scientists have discovered tumors can tap a nontraditional pathway to acquire lipoproteins—molecules that transport fat in blood—which enriches cancer cells with an antioxidant shield to survive stress, according to new research from Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern published in Nature.
