Executive Leadership
George M. Stancel, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and
Executive Vice President for Academic and Research Affairs
E-mail: George.M.Stancel@uth.tmc.edu
George M. Stancel, PhD, was appointed dean of The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston (GSBS) in May 1999, and executive vice president for research and academic affairs for The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in 2011.
In his role as dean of the Graduate School he is responsible for the overall operation of the school including admissions, academic affairs, curriculum, and student and faculty affairs. In his role as executive vice President for academic and research affairs, Dr. Stancel has responsibility for the university’s most critical central elements of research and education and becomes UTHealth’s chief academic officer. Dr. Stancel will continue to serve in both roles until his successor as dean of the Graduate School has been selected.
Dr. Stancel came to UTHealth in 1972 as an assistant professor of pharmacology at the Medical School, and he joined the GSBS faculty the next year. He has assumed many leadership roles, serving as interim executive vice president for research affairs following Tropical Storm Allison (2001), president of the Medical School Faculty Senate, president of the GSBS faculty, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the Medical School, and associate dean for education and research at the Medical School. In addition, he currently is a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology at the Medical School and an adjunct professor of gynecologic oncology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Stancel also has the unique distinction of having taught every student who has gone through the Medical School during his tenure and having taught at all six UTHealth schools as well as MD Anderson.
Dr. Stancel's research has received substantial funding from the National Institutes of Health and other sources for his work on the effects of estrogens and related hormones and drugs on the female reproductive system. He currently directs a number of training grants for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences, including UTHealth’s NIH Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences program.
Dr. Stancel earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the College of St. Thomas in 1966 and his doctorate in biochemistry from Michigan State University. He completed postdoctoral work in physiology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
