Cullen Trust for Higher Education Symposium focuses on Translational Research
The third annual Cullen Trust for Higher Education Symposium on Translational
Research will kick off Friday, January 15, 2010, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Onstead
Auditorium and foyer, 3rd floor, George and Cynthia Mitchell Basic Sciences Research
Building (BSRB), 6767 Bertner Street, Houston, Texas 77030. This Symposium will
highlight the outstanding translational research at The University of Texas Health
Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H), The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer
Center (UT-MDACC), and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), and is open to all
faculty, students and community friends.
Keynote speakers and topics are:
Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D., Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor,
Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology and
Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine: Understanding the Pathogenesis of an
Inherited Ataxia and the Relevance to Other Neurodegenerative Diseases.
John B. Holcomb, M.D., Director Center for Translational Injury Research; Professor of
Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School: Lessons
Learned from the War.
In conjunction with the Symposium, an MD/PhD Career Development Workshop will be
held the following day, Saturday, January 16, 2010 for current and prospective MD/PhD
students.
For more information, log onto: http://gsbs.uth.tmc.edu/symposium.htm
The Cullen Trust for Higher Education, under the chairmanship of Corbin (Corby)
Robertson, Jr., made a gift of $1.115M over five years to support, strengthen, and grow
the MD/PhD program at The University of Texas Health Science Center/M. D. Anderson
Cancer Center (joint program), and Baylor College of Medicine.
This award provides the full stipend for selected incoming MD/PhD students each year at
both programs during the medical training portion of their education. The magnitude of
collaborative effort accomplished through this support is unlike anything heretofore
organized in the Texas Medical Center, and provides an unprecedented level of
intellectual resource available to students in the combined MD/PhD degree programs at
each of these institutions.
As part of this grant and for the purpose of attracting the highest caliber undergraduates
throughout the nation to the MD/PhD programs here, an annual research symposium is
hosted jointly to feature outstanding translational researchers in the Texas Medical
Center. This Symposium exposes potential applicants from colleges and universities
across the country to the exciting research in translational medicine being accomplished
in the Texas Medical Center.
The 2009-2010 Cullen Trust for Higher Education MD/PhD Fellows are Stefanie Louise
Alexander and Meagan Barry, Baylor College of Medicine, and Andrew Peters,
University of Texas Health Science Center/M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Linda Carter
Director of Public Affairs and Development
The University of Texas
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
TEL (713) 500-9865 FAX (713) 500-9877
Linda.M.Carter@uth.tmc.edu
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