University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, school profile.

At present, the school is only composed of medical college, biomedical science research institute and health-related science college. University of Texas Southwest Medical Center (Dallas) offers junior college, undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs to meet the different needs of students. Courses offered include clinical nutrition, emergency medical education, medical laboratory science, radiotherapy, prosthetics and orthopedics, biomedical communication, biomedical engineering, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, clinical psychology, clinical science, genetics and its development, immunology, comprehensive biology, disease principles, doctor training courses, molecular biophysics, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, quantitative biology and so on.

The school is committed to training doctors, medical research experts and full-time medical and health care personnel. Southwest Medical Center is committed to training students to become highly skilled doctors and leaders in life science research. There are about 2,000 students in 20 12 years, including graduate students 1922 and international students 140. In addition, there are 3,255 postdoctoral researchers and 2,700 full-time teachers.

There are six Nobel Prize winners in the faculty (Brown/Goldstein in 1985, johann deisenhofer in 1988, alfred gilman in 1994, linda buck in 2004, Bruce Beutler in 1 1, including Sudhof in 2003), and there are also 1 Nobel Prize winners among doctoral students. In the field of biomedicine, the Southwest Medical Center of the University of Texas has produced more Nobel Prizes than NIH, Harvard Medical School and Stanford Medical School. In addition, there are 19 members of the American Academy of Sciences and 13 members of HHMI (including 3 people from China). Wang Xiaodong, an outstanding Chinese scientist, made an extremely important contribution to the study of apoptosis during his stay at the Southwest Medical Center in Texas, USA. In April 2004, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Sciences at the age of 465,438+0, and was the youngest member in the history of the National Academy of Sciences. Wang Xiaodong is also the first among more than 200,000 Chinese mainland students who have studied in the United States since the reform and opening up.