Military Health System Research Symposium – August 13 – 15 2023
The Military Health Science Research Symposium is an annual conference that focuses on the latest technologies and research focused on treating military personnel. This meeting is a conglomerate of military personnel, academic researchers, non-profits, and companies...
North Campus Cleanup – “Clean communities, healthy citizens.”
We love to keep our community clean! Our lab tackled cleaning up around our North Campus area at UT Southwestern Medical Center. We take our weekly walks around this beautiful area and do our part to keep the area in pristine shape. Together as a team, we were able to...
Captain Indestructible: Dallas firefighter, rises from the ashes and returns to job he loves
Dallas Fire-Rescue Capt. Chris Gadomski suffered severe burns and broken legs in a massive gas explosion in Oak Cliff in September 2021. With the help of his family, fellow firefighters, and care teams at UT Southwestern and Parkland hospitals, he never stopped...
American Burn Association Meeting 2023
As the newest addition to the growing scientific literature on heterotopic ossification, the Levi Laboratory is proud to announce a publication in Frontiers in Immunology entitled “Disruption of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) links mechanical strain to...
Spotlight Article: Tourniquet-induced ischemia creates increased risk of organ dysfunction and mortality following delayed limb amputation
The Levi laboratory is proud to present a publication in the Journal of Injury entitled “Tourniquet-induced ischemia creates increased risk of organ dysfunction and mortality following delayed limb amputation.” PMID: 36906480. (Read here!) Abstract Tourniquets are...
Spotlight Article: Macrophage Derived TGF-β Regulates HO Formation
The Levi laboratory is proud to present a publication in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) Insights entitled “Macrophage TGF-β signaling is critical for wound healing with heterotopic ossification after trauma.” Inflammation has been a well delineated,...
Bench to Bedside: Captain Indestructible – Dallas firefighter rises from the ashes and returns to job he loves
Spotlight Article: Contemporary Perspectives on HO
The Levi laboratory is proud to present a publication in Journal of Clinical Investigtation - Insights entitled “Contemporary perspectives on heterotopic ossification.” As an amalgam of our previous work and rapidly expanding literature examining heterotopic...
Spotlight Article: Nerves and Vessels Talk to Each Other in HO Formation
The Levi laboratory in collaboration with the James laboratory is proud to present a publication in Bone Research (Nature) entitled “Neuron-to-vessel signaling is a required feature of aberrant stem cell commitment after soft tissue trauma.” In our previous work, we...
Spotlight Article: Nerves Talk in Post-Traumatic HO
The Levi laboratory is proud to present a publication in Nature Communications entitled "NGF-TrkA signaling dictates neural ingrowth and aberrant osteochondral differentiation after soft tissue trauma." Observations from developmental biology have previously clued in...