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Health Science Center Shares in Star Award
The W. M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training was one of six exemplary programs to receive the 2005 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Star Award. The awards are given to institutions that represent the state’s most effective efforts for closing education gaps.
Peter Davies, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president for research of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and the deans of two health science center schools – George Stancel, Ph.D., dean of the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, and Jack Smith, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the UT School of Health Information Sciences at Houston – and representatives from other Gulf Coast Consortia institutions accepted the award in Austin on behalf of the W. M. Keck Center.
Launched with a grant from the Keck Foundation, the Keck Center is the training arm of the Gulf Coast Consortia, which brings together the strengths of Houston-Galveston area academic medical research institutions. The Keck Center supports more than 60 trainees and has 200 training faculty with five joint training programs.
Other members of the consortia are UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, UT Medical Branch at Galveston, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University and the University of Houston.