The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston

WELCOME FROM THE DEAN

Welcome to The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston. Our primary mission is to educate research scientists and scientist-educators and to generate new knowledge in the biomedical sciences that will improve peoples’ health and well being. Never have these possibilities been as promising, exciting, or important.

Our two parent institutions, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, provide world class resources and facilities to support our mission.

Our graduate students have the freedom to pursue research in a wide array of areas covering basic, translational and clinically related biomedical science
Federal grant funding to the parent institutions of our graduate school faculty, UT Health-Houston and the MD Anderson Cancer, totals over $300 million per year.
A number of our graduate programs rank alongside the top 20 programs in the nation according to the 2010 National Research Council assessment.
Our graduate school is located in world’s largest biomedical research medical center in a culturally rich and internationally diverse city with a low cost of living.