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.
Our graduate students can earn doctoral degrees in any of these 14 programs
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biomathematics and Biostatistics
- Cancer Biology
- Cell and Regulatory Biology - (cell biology, pharmacology, physiology)
- Experimental Therapeutics
- Genes and Development
- Human and Molecular Genetics
- Immunology
- Medical Physics
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Molecular Carcinogenesis
- Molecular Pathology
- Neuroscience
- Virology and Gene Therapy
We offer MS degrees in Biomedical Science, and specialized MS degrees in Genetic Counseling and Medical Physics.
We invite you to explore our educational programs and research opportunities – I hope you enjoy them!
George M. Stancel, Ph.D.
Dean
John P. McGovern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Endowed Distinguished Professor
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