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George M. Stancel, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
E-mail: George.M.Stancel@uth.tmc.edu
Dr. George M. Stancel was appointed dean of The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston in May 1999.
Stancel came to The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1972 as a professor of integrative biology and pharmacology at the Medical School, and he joined the GSBS faculty the next year. He has assumed many leadership roles, including president of the Medical School Faculty Senate, president of the GSBS faculty, chairman of the pharmacology department, and associate dean for education and research at the Medical School. (Stancel notes that he has the unique distinction of having taught every single student who has gone through the Medical School during his tenure.)
Stancel's research has received substantial funding from the National Institutes of Health and other sources, and he is principal investigator of an ongoing study of estrogen control of uterine growth, which began in 1974.
Stancel earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the College of St. Thomas in 1966. He went on to receive a doctorate in biochemistry from Michigan State University and completed postdoctoral work in physiology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Date Reviewed: 11/07/2006
