| SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH | |
| Department of Genetics | |
| Degree granted: | None |
| Training available: | Doctoral, Ph.D. Postdoctoral |
| Current enrollment: | 2 Doctoral, 10 Ph.D. Postdoctoral |
| Number of graduates in last 2 years: | 3 Ph.D. Postdoctoral |
| Faculty status: | 13 Ph.D., 1 M.D./Ph.D. |
| Areas of concentration: | anthropological genetics, biochemical genetics, gene mapping, molecular genetics, oncological genetics, population genetics, Statistical genetics, Genetic epidemiology |
| Clinical training fellowships: | |
| ABMG accreditation: | |
| Financial support: | Initial support for postdoctoral and fellows and predoctoral students is often provided by departmental faculty using existing grants. Postdoctoral fellows are also expected to apply for postdoctoral grants from NIH or other agencies. |
| Application deadline: | none |
| Contact: |
Sarah Williams-Blangero, Chairman, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Department of Genetics, 7620 N.W. Loop 410, San Antonio, TX, 78227-5301, Tel: 210-258-9577, Fax: 210-670-3344, E-mail: sarah@darwin.sfbr.org Jean W. MacCluer, Director of Population Genetics Laboratory, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Department of Genetics, 7620 N.W. Loop 410, San Antonio, Texas, 78227-5301, Tel: 210-258-9490, Fax: 210-670-3317, E-mail: jean@darwin.sfbr.org |
| Web homepage: | http://www.sfbr.org |
| The postdoctoral training program is located in the Department of Genetics at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, a private non-profit research institution in San Antonio. We collaborate in this effort with the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology and the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The Department of Cellular and Structural Biology also offers a Ph.D. program in genetics. Our postdoctoral training program emphasizes the genetics of susceptibility to common diseases, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and infectious diseases. Research and training involve human subjects and also stress the use of animal models to test hypotheses that cannot be tested directly with humans. In addition to standard laboratory animals, unique pedigreed colonies of baboons (n=3,000) and marsupials (Monodelphis domestica, n=1,700) are used experimentally in the program. | |