The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston was created by the UT System Board of Regents and supported by the Texas Legislature in 1972. Located in the world renowned Texas Medical Center, the school is primarily a graduate education university focusing on the health sciences. The UTHSC-H School of Public Health ranked #1 in doctoral health education in 2004.

Size and budget
In 2005 UTHSC-H had an operating budget of $600.4 million with $150.2 million in Research expenditures (FY 2004). The university has 3,076,020 ft² (286,000 m²) in 36 buildings throughout the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. Over 600 grant-funded research projects are in progress at any given time. UTHSC-H further enjoyed $60.9 million in endowments in 2004 and had a $1.7 billion economic impact on the Houston metropolitan region.

Awards and honors

 * Nobel Prize Laureate - Ferid Murad, MD, PhD
 * Prince Mahidol Award for Medicine - Palmer Beasley, MD
 * National Academy of Science - Ferid Murad, MD, PhD
 * Academy of Arts and Sciences - Ferid Murad, MD, PhD; William J. Schull, PhD; Irma Gigli, MD
 * Institute of Medicine - LuAnn Aday, PhD; Irma Gigli, MD; Ferid Murad, MD, PhD; James T. Willerson, MD
 * American Association for the Advancement of Science - L. Maximilian Buja, MD; John H. Byrne, PhD; Kathleen Gibson, PhD; Irma Gigli, MD; Ferid Murad, MD, PhD; Jerry Wolinsky, MD
 * American Academy of Nursing - Mara Baun, DNSC, RN, FAAN; Nancy Bergstrom, PhD, RN, FAAN; Marlene Z. Cohen, PhD, RN, FAAN; Frank Cole, PhD, RN, CEN, CS, FNP, FAAN; Deanna Grimes, DrPH, RN, FAAN; Sandra Hanneman, PhD, RN, FAAN; * Joanne Hickey, PhD, APRN, BC, ACNP, FAAN; Thomas Mackey, PhD, NP-C, FAAN; Marianne Marcus, EdD, RN, FAAN; Janet Meininger, PhD, RN, FAAN; Gwen Sherwood, PhD, RN, FAAN; Patricia L. Starck, DSN, RN, FAAN; Geri Wood, PhD, RN, FAAN
 * President George W. Bush announced on February 22, 2007 his intention to nominate S. Ward Casscells III, M.D., vice president for biotechnology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).
 * In a Zogby International “blind bio” poll, conducted Sept. 6-10, 2007, it showed that S. Ward Casscells III, M.D., a longtime conservative now serving as the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, is preferred by about as many Republican voters nationwide as Republican frontrunners Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson. (In a blind bio poll, the names of the candidates are not used, but are replaced with brief descriptions of each candidate’s biographies.) When likely voting respondents were given brief biographical descriptions of the top GOP candidates, along with the biography of Casscells, Giulani and Thompson each won 19% support, while Casscells won 18%. Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, won 13% support, while Arizona Sen. John McCain won 11% and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won 10%. The survey carries a margin of error of 5.8 percentage points. It should be known, however, that in 2004 S. Ward Casscells III, M.D. established the UT-Zogby poll on health issues.

Schools

 * Dental Branch
 * Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
 * Medical School
 * School of Health Information Sciences
 * School of Nursing
 * School of Public Health

Centers and institutes

 * Center on Aging
 * Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials
 * Gulf States Hemophilia & Thrombophilia Center/Pediatric AIDS Center
 * Houston Biomaterials Research Center
 * Houston Center for Bone Research
 * Human Genetics Center
 * Human Nutrition Center
 * The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases
 * Laboratory for Molecular Diagnosis of Inherited Eye Diseases
 * Mental Sciences Institute
 * Medical Education Information Center
 * Neuroscience Research Center
 * Program on Humanities & Technology in Health Care
 * Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health
 * Structural Biology Center
 * Trauma Research Center
 * University Clinical Research Center
 * Weatherhead PET Imaging Center
 * Center for Academic & Reading Skills (CARS)
 * Center for Biosecurity and Disaster Preparedness
 * Center for Cardiovascular Biology and Atherosclerosis Research
 * Clinical Genetics Research Center
 * Center for Clinical Research & Evidence Based Medicine
 * Center for Computational Biomedicine
 * Center for Education and Information Resources
 * Center for Health Policy Studies
 * Center for Health Promotion & Prevention Research
 * Center for Human Development Research
 * Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning & Education (CIRCLE)
 * Center for Infectious Diseases
 * Center for Laboratory Animal Medicine & Care
 * Center for Medical & Public Health Chronobiology
 * for Membrane Biology
 * Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center
 * Center for Nursing Research
 * Center for Society and Population Health
 * Center for Study of Emerging & Reemerging Pathogens
 * Center for NanoMedicine
 * Office of Biotechnology

Postal services
The closest United States Postal Service office is the CPU #33 University of Texas at 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, Texas, 77030-4009.