Research: Organizations & Centers of Excellence

UT Austin Research Units:
UT Austin has more than 100 research units and serves as the driver in the Austin region for research and discovery in emerging areas of science. Annual research funding exceeded $497 million in 2006-07 and more than 400 patents have been awarded to the university since its inception.

Since 1984, more than 40 $1 million-endowed chairs have been created at UT Austin to recruit internationally recognized faculty to accelerate research programs in engineering and science. The faculty at UT Austin is composed of a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur fellows and hundreds of members of prestigious the academic and scientific organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Engineering.

The university's group of libraries has consistently ranked among the top 10 research libraries in the nation. The 17 libraries on UT Austin campus house more than nine million volumes.

Institute for Cellular & Molecular Biology

The Biochemical Institute

The Center for Biological and Medical Engineering

The Center for Molecular and Cellular Toxicology

The Imaging Research Center

The Institute for Neuroscience

The Institute for Theoretical Chemistry

Drug Dynamics Institute

The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

The Center for Strategic and Innovative Technologies

The Neuroscience Imaging Center

Texas Materials Institute

Center for Nano-Molecular Sciences and Technology

Texas Advanced Computing Center

The Microelectronics Research Center (MRC)

Other Research Centers & Initiatives

Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
HB 14, approved by Texas voters in 2007, creates the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. The bill dedicates $300 million a year in general bonds to fund scientific research aimed at curing cancer. The bill will aid in research facilities and university and other members' support of research. The first grants will be available in 2010 and funding could continue until August 2020.

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