Rice University and The Texas Medical Center Partnerships:

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AND SEVENTY PROGRAMS STRONG

IMAGINE . . . having a damaged heart replaced with a brand new heart grown from your own body.
IMAGINE . . . diagnostic tools that can predict cancer.
IMAGINE . . . a plentiful artificial blood substitute.
IMAGINE . . . a consensus on ethical guidelines for genetic engineering.
IMAGINE . . . living in space.

Education is the heart of the Rice/Texas Medical Center partnerships. When we or those we love need health care, we want the best. And when our society looks to educational and medical institutions for the caliber of research essential for improving health care, we also want the best. Rice/Texas Medical Center collaborations are helping to make the best even better. Research is the brain of the Rice/Texas Medical Center partnerships. Our collaborative research programs, involving every one of Rice’s academic divisions and all of the Texas Medical Center’s major research institutions, are as diverse as they are exciting and important.

Resources are the muscle of the Rice/Texas Medical Center partnerships. Leading-edge research requires resources, and the Rice/Texas Medical Center partnerships feature exceptional facilities and equipment. More important are the exceptional human resources— the consolidation of minds and talent from one of world’s great research universities and one of the world’s premier medical centers.

Together, Rice and the Texas Medical Center are focusing their combined expertise and resources on health-related concerns that affect us all, envisioning better medical care and making it real, and helping change the face of health care for decades to come.