Awards given to seven unique programs that benefit Galveston community Ten University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston faculty and staff and one medical student have received seven President’s Cabinet Awards, totaling $210,704, for innovative programs that will help advance the... more »

The Cullen Trust for Higher Education has pledged $334,000 to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for a facility that will house sophisticated surgical simulator mannequins and other devices to help surgical residents and medical students advance their clinical skills in realistic,... more »

Galveston County Daily News, March 28, 2010

Few local economies in the United States have been as distinctly benefited by philanthropy as Galveston County, wrote Harris L. “Shrub” Kempner Jr. in this guest column. The Sealy family has donated to UTMB for over 100 years, giving more than $69,000 to fully fund the construction of... more »

Gift will support studies that engineer stem cells into insulin-producing cells GALVESTON, Texas - Miriam McCoy remembers the uncertainty she experienced 45 years ago when she was diagnosed with diabetes. An incurable but treatable health condition, the disease prevents the body from producing or... more »

Gift will be used to purchase imaging equipment to aid development of vaccine A Wichita Falls couple has contributed $100,000 to support Alzheimer’s disease research at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that may lead eventually to a vaccine for the neurodegenerative... more »

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Sept. 10, 2009 The Sealy & Smith Foundation has pledged $200 million to support improvements at John Sealy Hospital and construction of a new facility. The money will be paid over 15 years. more »

GALVESTON, Texas - The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston announced today that it has received a multi-year, $250,000 contribution from ConocoPhillips to support the expansion of the Truman G. Blocker Burn Unit. The contribution supports a planned $6 million expansion for the burn... more »

Scholarship is one of UTMB's largest non-endowed awards  GALVESTON, Texas - Gabriel Mansouraty, a first-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has been awarded the George and Mary Josephine Hamman Scholarship, one of the university's largest non-endowed... more »

For immediate release: August 1, 2007 GALVESTON, Texas - A Galveston couple has contributed $500,000 to establish an endowed faculty position in the University of Texas Medical Branch's Department of Radiation Oncology. The Irma Labardini Mendoza and Jesse Jesus Mendoza Chair in Radiation Oncology... more »

For immediate release: April. 18, 2007 GALVESTON, Texas - A Sealy & Smith Foundation grant for $4 million is expected to propel the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston into an advanced clinical resource for patients with cancer. Transformation is... more »