UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
The members of the Graduate School faculty are also members of the faculty of either UT Southwestern Medical School or UT Southwestern School of Health Professions. The major portion of research for graduate degrees is performed in the laboratories of these faculty members.
As it has matured into a separate entity of academic distinction, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences has benefited from the talents of the basic-science faculty of the Medical School, noted for its innovative contributions to research and teaching methods. Twenty-five faculty members have been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, and six have won the Nobel Prize since 1985. These and their fellow faculty members, while internationally recognized leaders in their fields of study, foster a uniquely close-knit research environment on a campus noted for its congeniality and collaborations. As UT Southwestern continues to grow, talented new faculty members are recruited to keep the Medical Center at the forefront of biomedical research.
Many faculty members are serving currently or have served recently as heads of national professional societies, as editorial board members of major scientific publications, and as members of study sections and scientific review panels under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other disease-focused nonprofit organizations.
Throughout their course of advanced instruction, students and postdoctoral scholars in the Graduate School remain in close contact with faculty members and enjoy the highly interactive atmosphere promoted by faculty at all ranks. Courses of study are designed to develop individual abilities in an atmosphere encouraging maximal intellectual interchange between students and mentors.
Graduates of UT Southwestern have obtained postdoctoral fellowships at institutions such as Harvard University, Rockefeller University, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, University of California San Francisco, Washington University, and the Salk Institute and have gone on to faculty positions at Harvard University, Duke University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and UT Southwestern. Others play key roles in scientific administration and/or research at pharmaceutical corporations and private industry leaders. Two UT Southwestern alumni have been awarded a Nobel Prize (Joseph Goldstein, M.D., Medical School, 1966; and Linda Buck, Ph.D., Graduate School, 1980).