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UTMB is a major academic health center dedicated to improving lives through health sciences education, clinical care and biomedical research. The University has six hospitals in Galveston, 90 campus- and community-based clinics, and four schools: medical, nursing, allied health sciences, and a graduate school for biomedical sciences. UTMB is the lead institution for the Western Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases and is the site of the Galveston National Laboratory, one of only two national biocontainment laboratories. Last year UTMB had $156 million in research expenditures with $105 million in NIH funding. Major research and patient care initiatives include a cancer center, a transplant center, molecular cardiology, burns care, neurology and the neurosciences, infectious disease, and women's and children's health. The University is the seventh largest employer among those headquartered in the Houston/Galveston region with 12,000 employees and a $1.4 billion budget.