Departments

Nanomedicine

Systems Medicine and Bioengineering

Translational Imaging

The Department of Nanomedicine provides the infrastructure for the development of fundamental platforms including silicon/semiconductors, nano/microfabrication, mathematics, molecular medicine and pharmaceutical technologies.

The Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering seeks cures and improvements in disease diagnosis and treatments by the new systems biology paradigm and by developing and integrating technologies in bioinformatics, bioimaging, bioengineering and chemical biology.

The Department of Translational Imaging partners researchers with clinicians to develop new translational imaging materials and technologies that improve patient diagnosis, therapy, and outcomes.

Recruiting: Department Chair

Programs

Cancer
The cancer research program at TMHRI is one of the largest in Texas, with basic, clinical, and translational studies covering many types of cancer including breast, endometrial, genitourinary, and prostate.

Cardiovascular Disease
The cardiovascular disease program at TMHRI focuses primarily on atherosclerosis, acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmia, atrial and ventricular fibrillation, and heart failure.

Diabetes and Metabolic Disease
The diabetes and metabolic disease research program at TMHRI will conduct a wide range of investigational studies into the mechanisms of diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, tissue damage, and islet cell dysfunction.

Genomic Medicine
The genomic medicine program conducts research in nuclear hormone receptor genomic regulatory mechanisms, and oversees a Next Generation genomic sequencing core that provides services to TMHRI researchers.

Infectious Disease
The infectious disease and inflammation research program at TMHRI focuses on several significant causes of human infection including group A Streptococcus (strep throat, flesh eating disease), tuberculosis, and Vibrio cholerae.

Inflammation and Epigenetics
The Center for Inflammation and Epigenetics is an interdisciplinary translational research laboratory, which bridges laboratory science and clinical applications in the fields of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, infectious disease, metabolism, cancer, neuroscience and transplantation.

Neurosciences
The neurosciences research program at TMHRI concentrates on investigations of amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's Disease, medically refractory dystonia, stroke, primary brain tumors, and stuttering.

Outcomes, Quality & Other Initiatives

Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
The tissue engineering & regenerative medicine program was established to advance the field of cell-based therapies, and to support TMHRI investigators in their research involving pluripotent stem cells to treat human diseases.

Transplant Immunology
The transplant immunology research program at TMHRI directs its studies on the minimization of postoperative complications for heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplantation.