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Innovation, discovery and collaboration have proved a powerful research combination. Seven UTMB medical departments are ranked in the Top 20 nationally for NIH funding; three of those are ranked among the top 10.

  
  • International leader in infectious diseases research — www.utmb.edu/ihii
    • Galveston National Laboratory for the safe study of infectious threats to health dedicated November 2008; first and only national lab in Texas; $174 million from NIH and $59 million in state matching funds
    • Lead agency for the five-state Western Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases Research
    • Only university in the U.S. to garner both the national laboratory and center of excellence grants
    • More than 200 researchers currently devoted to such research
    • Pediatrics Department/Sealy Center for Vaccine Development received the first Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation research grant to a Texas school ($9.5 million for flu vaccine development)
    • Hepatitis C Cooperative Research Center at UTMB manages consortium including Southwest Foundation for Research, Johns Hopkins University and University of Washington–Seattle
    • Global Health Program to utilize telemedicine capability to conduct global grand rounds for exchange of expertise
    • $1.75 million in federal funding to develop a Pilot BSL4 Facility at UTMB to help set national standards for training personnel to work in high- and maximum-containment environments
  • Three UT System STAR award recipients on faculty
  • UTMB is the only medical school to have received a clinical proteomics contract from the NIH
  • Faculty play a lead role in Mission Connect, a consortium led by The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR) that includes UT Health Science Center at Houston, Texas A&M and Baylor College of Medicine; dedicated to reversing the effects of spinal cord and brain injury
  • Seven School of Medicine departments ranked in the Top 20 among their peers for NIH funding, including three ranked among the top 10; overall, UTMB ranks 41st in NIH funding to medical schools
  • UTMB’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, ranked 6th in NIH funding, is the only one in the nation to be included in all four major research networks of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • School of Health Professions is ranked in the NIH Top 10
  • At the forefront of molecular medicine, a line of scientific and clinical inquiry that underpins our research endeavors and promises personalized, predictive, pre-emptive care
  • Additional research strengths
  • Extensive collaborations with NASA and commercial space companies
  • Abundant active research collaborations with Texas A&M System institutions (topics ranging from infectious diseases and marine biomedicine to building diversity in biomedical graduate programs)