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- The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center is the “university of the health sciences” for The Texas
A&M University System.
- Academic components of the A&M System Health Science Center are distributed throughout the State
of Texas
- Dallas: Baylor College of Dentistry (BCD)
- Houston: Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT)
- College Station & Temple:
College of Medicine (COM)
- College Station: School of Rural Public Health (SRPH)
- Over the past
five years, research funding for the TAMHSC has more than doubled. For
FY 2004, A&M System Health Science Center has research expenditures of $42.4 million and
$21.4 million in direct funds from NIH grants.
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- Located in Dallas adjacent to the Baylor University
Medical Center,
- Approximately 30 basic scientists as full-time faculty, primarily
in the Department of Biomedical Sciences [http://www.tambcd.edu/bms/],
who do research and provide instruction in the basic sciences
for all dental and postgraduate students.
- Approximately 2/3 of the biomedical and clinical research
faculty members are involved primarily in research dealing with
craniofacial development and bone biology.
- Total direct research expenditures at BCD increased from $2.1
million to $3.6 million in the past five years.
- BCD is currently ranked 24th among U.S. dental schools for
NIH funding, and 2nd among the three dental schools in Texas.
- The BCD
Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences [http://bms.bcd.tamhsc.edu/Training Programs/index.html],
which is part of the TAMHSC Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences,
has one of the largest groups of D.D.S./Ph.D. and postgraduate/Ph.D.
students among U.S. dental schools.
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- Located in Houston as an integral component of the Texas Medical
Center, the largest medical research center in the world.
- Renowned as one of the premier biomedical research institutions
in the U.S.
- Encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary ventures that
bring about synergies in biomedical science leading to technology
transfer of research discoveries to the marketplace.
- Six research
centers focus on cancer biology and nutrition, environmental
and genetic medicine, inherited diseases, arthritis, bone diseases,
and structural biology.
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