page_title: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Prophecies (printed in London by Thomas Ratcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson; 1st English ed.), located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
context_page_description: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System.
  UT Health San Antonio is the largest health sciences university in South Texas. It is located in the South Texas Medical Center and serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square miles area of Central and South Texas. It extends to campuses in the Texas border communities of Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
  UT Health San Antonio has produced more than 28,000 graduates; more than 3,000 students a year train in an environment that involves more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities in South Texas. The university offers more than 65 degrees, the large majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the biomedical and health sciences fields.
  UT Health San Antonio is home to the Mays Cancer Center, which is in partnership with the MD Anderson Cancer Center and is a designated a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center.
context_section_description: 1959: South Texas Medical School is chartered.
  1966: First class of 15 students is admitted to the Medical School; temporarily housed at Trinity University.
  1969: Legislature authorizes creation of Dental School.
  1970: Legislature authorizes School of Nursing.
  1972: School of Allied Health Sciences and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences created Institution is officially designated The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Frank Harrison, M.D., Ph.D., appointed first president.
  1976: Responsibility for the School of Nursing is transferred to the U. T. Health Science Center from the U. T. Nursing School at Austin.
  1987: Gift of $15 million from H. Ross Perot finances creation of Institute of Biotechnology.
  1992: National Institutes of Health funds HSC researchers' work on the Human Genome Project.
  1998: State Legislature authorizes creation of a Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RAHC), to be administered by the Health Science Center’s Medical School.
  1999: Health Science Center is designated to receive a $200 million public endowment from the State of Texas to establish a Children’s Cancer Research Institute Construction begins on   South Texas Centers for Biology in Medicine at the Texas Research Park.
  2002: The Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RAHC) opens its doors for medical students and residents.
  2003: Health Science Center receives largest grant to date for a $37 million study of small subcortical strokes. Health Science Center and UT San Antonio   establish the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute, a   collaborative research and education partnership.A $300 million initiative announced to build a Research Tower in the South Texas Medical Center and recruit leading scientists for it.
  2004: Health Science Center dedicates $50 million Children's Cancer Research Institute.
  2006: The Regional Academic Health Center - Medical Research Division (E-RAHC)  was dedicated April 25, 2006 on the campus of UT Pan American in Edinburg. Also administered by the Health Science Center, this division provides  laboratory space and equipment for   research on critical health problems of the South Texas/Border Region.
  2007: Health Science Center receives a $25 million donation from the Greehey Family Foundation.
  2007: Valero Energy Corporation donates $5 million to the university.
  2007: The Cancer Therapy & Research Center is acquired by the Health Science Center.
  2007: Health Science Center receives a $25 million donation from Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long. The central campus is renamed the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Campus.
  2007: The second facility was dedicated at The Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley campus - the Academic and Clinical Research building. This facility houses the RAHC clinical research center and also the South Texas VA Health Care Center.
  2008: University Hospital announces plans for a $1 billion expansion that includes a new trauma tower.
  2011: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) put the Medical School on probation. The LCME cited curricular issues as a central feature that prompted the probationary status 
  2013: The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) removed the Medical School from its probation list.
caption: Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library.
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