Director's Message
Every day scientists from around the world come to work at Texas A&M Health Science Center's Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT) with a commitment to improve the quality of healthcare through education, partnerships and innovative molecular research in bioscience and medicine.
Located in Houston in the world class Texas Medical Center on the Texas A&M Health Science Center Houston campus, IBT researchers focus on the basic research required for developing cures and treatments for cancer, heart failure, stroke, bacterial infections, birth defects, hereditary diseases, and diabetes and metabolic diseases.
IBT is organized around centers comprised of faculty and researchers working on common themes:
Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology,
Center for Environmental and Genetic Medicine,
Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Disease, and
Center for Molecular Development and Disease.
Graduate and postdoctoral education is conducted at IBT as part of the Texas A&M Health Science Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. IBT research groups also host undergraduate and graduate students from diverse programs within the Texas A&M System and institutions in the Texas Medical Center.
The IBT provides a bridge between Texas A&M scientists and scientists across the Texas Medical Center, as well as to the biotechnology community. The institute encourages its scientists to transfer discoveries made in their laboratories to the marketplace so that its research results reach people. Faculty members work with biotech companies, execute patents and licensing agreements, and form new companies based on IBT research.
Members of the IBT faculty have affiliations with other departments within the A&M Health Science Center or Texas A&M University. Most also have adjunct appointments and extensive collaborations in departments at Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
