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UT Health Science Center
Joins
New Border Health Collaboration
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has joined three other institutions of The University of Texas System in a new partnership to invest $1 million next year toward projects targeting education and research on the problems of diabetes, obesity and the nursing shortage along the South Texas-Mexico border.
Borderplex Proposals Due
The Borderplex Health Council is accepting requests for proposals from investigators at University of Texas institutions for grants in
the $25,000 to $50,000 range. The deadline for the first round of proposals is Oct. 7.
More information and the proposal form are at http://www.uthscsa.edu/ogm/
borderplex.htm.
In addition to the UT Health Science Center at Houston, the new Borderplex Health Council comprises the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, UT Pan American and UT Brownsville/Texas Southmost College.
“The Borderplex Health Council brings together the immense scientific and health research strengths of two of our state’s great health science centers with the engineering, computer science and other great capabilities of our general academic universities that are right here along the border,” said Juliet V. Garcia, Ph.D., chair of the Borderplex Health Council and president of UT Brownsville/Texas Southmost College.
Included in the effort are the UT School of Public Health regional campuses in Brownsville and El Paso, and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio’s two Regional Academic Health Center campuses in Harlingen and Edinburg. The council also will work collaboratively with the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio’s Laredo extension campus and UT El Paso.
“We are proud to be a partner in this endeavor, and to provide the special expertise of our School of Public Health to the study of these urgent health topics along the border,” said James T. Willerson, M.D., president of the UT Health Science Center at Houston.