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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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