T32 Pre–Doctoral Training in Emerging and Tropical Infectious Diseases

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston has a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases institutional T32 pre-doctoral Emerging and Tropical Infectious Diseases training program to support four graduate trainees and three short-term research training positions for medical students each year. Training is provided by 17 program faculty and 18 adjunct faculty. Emerging and tropical infectious diseases encompass the broadly-based multidisciplinary sciences of microbiology, pathology, immunology, molecular biology, epidemiology, entomology, vertebrate zoology, biochemistry, structural biology and cell biology. UTMB has made a major commitment to emerging and tropical diseases with the establishment of a Center for Tropical Diseases that is a designated World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases.

This multidisciplinary Center involves components of the School of Medicine(Departments of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics) and the Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences . These disciplines provide an extensive resource for access of the trainees of this program to a very attractive array of research areas highly relevant to emerging and tropical infectious diseases. In addition, the faculty of the Center for Tropical Diseases has grant support for research on emerging infections and tropical diseases in the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and parts of Central America and Africa. Thus, trainees have the opportunity to undertake a variety of research topics from laboratory-based studies at UTMB to field studies in the tropics.

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