copy of
Avicenna's
Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library • 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. ' 1672 English translation of the
Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library • 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 • 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. • 2025: The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio merges with The University of Texas at San Antonio to create UT San Antonio.
2010 Failed merger with University of Texas at San Antonio State Senator Leticia Van de Putte championed the creation of a special advisory group that would research the benefits of a possible merger between the Health Science Center and the
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), which is also located on the city's northwest side. In 2010, the special advisory group, headed by
Peter T. Flawn, former president of both UTSA and the
University of Texas at Austin, concluded that a merger would not be in the best interest of the two institutions. Among its key arguments were that both institutions had strong leadership already on a positive trajectory, the merger would be a short-term distraction for UTHSCSA, and the benefit to UTSA's national stature would be slight. The $300 million project, titled "The Campaign for the Future of Health", seeks to build new infrastructure with the South Texas Research Facility and the President's Excellence Fund. ==Campuses==