On Jun. 10, 2015, Southwestern Medical Center announced it has received a $25 million gift from Lyda Hill, funding the establishment of the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics to bridge research and clinical care.

With this commitment, Miss Hill had contributed more than $37.5 million to UT Southwestern. Lyda Hill  is an American investor and philanthropist, a member of the Hunt family, and the only living single woman to make the Philanthropy list of most generous donors.