The University of Texas System is a public university system in the U.S. state of Texas. It includes nine universities and five independent health institutions. The UT System is headquartered in Downtown Austin. It is the largest university system in Texas with 250,000+ enrolled students, 21,000+ employed faculty, 83,000+ health care professionals, researchers and support staff. The UT System's $42.7 billion endowment is the largest of any public university system in the United States.
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 375 programs. It is Michigan's third-largest university with nearly 24,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Wayne State University, along with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, compose the University Research Corridor of Michigan. Wayne State is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a public research university in San Antonio, Texas. Established in 1969, UTSA is the largest university in San Antonio and the eighth-largest by enrollment in the state of Texas enrolling over 35,000 students across its five campuses spanning more than 758 acres. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". The UTSA Institute for Economic Development generates $2.6 billion in direct economic impact.
TheUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, doing business as UT Health San Antonio, is a public academic health science center in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System.
Zorica Pantić, also known as Zorica Pantić-Tanner, born 1951 in Yugoslavia, is a professor of electrical engineering and past president of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Bernadine Patricia Healy was an American cardiologist and the first female director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on affective science and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. She has received both of the highest scientific honors in the field of psychology, the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for 2025, and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association for 2021. Along with James Russell, she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. Along with James Gross, she founded the Society for Affective Science.
Meredith Hay is an American biomedical researcher and Professor in the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute and in the Department of Psychology at University Arizona.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader who served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020. In March 2024 she was elected as a board member of OpenAI. She was previously Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the first woman to hold the position, and Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor, and before that president of product development at Genentech, where she played a role in the development of the first gene-targeted cancer drugs, Avastin and Herceptin.
Joe G. N. "Skip" Garcia is an American pulmonary scientist, physician and academician.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politician, pediatrician, co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996, she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She has served the health sector in various high-level government positions. She resides in Kigali.
Yvette Roubideaux is an American doctor and public health administrator. She is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
Vivian S. Lee is an American radiologist and health care/health technology executive. An Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School and senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee is the author of the book, The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies That Work for Everyone. Lee is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2019, she was named No. 11 in Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and is a frequent speaker at national and international meetings on the applications of big data, AI, and technology in healthcare, leadership and managing change, health equity, and on climate change and health system resilience.
James H. Bray is a clinical and family psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA). Bray is professor and former chair of the Department of Psychology at University of Texas San Antonio (2017-present). Previously he was an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (1987-2017). He is also chairman of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Houston College of Medicine (2023-2024).
Farnam Jahanian is an Iranian-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and academic. He serves as the 10th president of Carnegie Mellon University.
Thomas Taylor Eighmy is an American engineer and academic administrator serving as the sixth president of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Sherine E. Gabriel is an Egyptian–Canadian rheumatologist and administrator. She is the fourth president of Rush University and James A. Campbell, MD, Distinguished Service Professor, having formerly served as Dean of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2020, Gabriel was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine for "her leadership in academic medicine and recognition for being an inspiring thought leader in research, clinical business development and educational innovation."
Heather J. Shipley is an American environmental engineer and academic administrator serving as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the inaugural holder of the Hispanic Thriving Institution Endowed Chair for the Dean of University College.
Clara Chow is an Australian cardiologist who is the program director of community-based cardiac services at Sydney's Westmead Hospital. She is a professor of medicine at the University of Sydney in the field of cardiovascular disease epidemiology, prevention, treatment and innovation. In 2019, she was appointed the academic director of the Westmead Applied Research Centre, a collaborative centre with a mission to better understand the causes of cardiovascular disease and translate their research to new treatments. She has also held the role of academic co-director of the Charles Perkins Centre since 2016.
Jill M. Kolesar is an American pharmacist, cancer researcher, and professor, currently serving as the dean and Jean M. Schmidt Chair in Drug Discovery at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. She specializes in precision oncology, drug development, and molecular pharmacology, with contributions to cancer therapy, particularly for rural and underserved populations.
