South Texas Medical Center

. In 2009, 27,884 persons were directly employed at the center, and the combined budget of all entities at the South Texas Medical Center totaled $3.3 billion. STMC is the San Antonio area's second largest employer. ==Research and development==

medical school. Seen from R to L are ''Methodist Children's Hospital, Methodist Heart Hospital, Methodist Gamma Knife Center, Texas Neuroscience Institute, and Methodist Plaza''. San Antonio's Biosciences industry employs over 100,000 people. The largest areas of research are conducted by institutes in or around the South Texas Medical Center. These include the oncology division of one of the world's top five biotechnology firms, the world's largest Phase I clinical trials program for new anti-cancer drugs, and the new $200 million Children's Cancer Research Institute. San Antonio also houses the world's largest genomics computing cluster and the state's public bank for stem cell-rich umbilical cord blood. ==Academics==

Central to the medical center is the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and its teaching hospital: The University Hospital, which is the source of employment for 12,000 people. The Audie Murphy VA Hospital, CTRC, Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas Cancer Clinic, the Children's Cancer Research Institute, Christus Santa Rosa health system, Texas Neuroscience Institute, Villa Rosa, St Luke, and 11 Methodist hospitals also have affiliated programs or projects with the UT Health Science Center. The University of the Incarnate Word also has a campus located in the eastern part of the South Texas Medical Center, where its optometry school is located. UIW has affiliated programs with the Christus Santa Rosa health system. San Antonio College has a nursing training program at STMC, and the University of Texas at San Antonio has joint programs with UTHSCSA's GSBS and School of Allied Health Sciences. The Baptist Health System School of Health Professions is also located in the South Texas Medical Center. The University of Texas at Austin's School of Pharmacy also has research facilities and staff located in the medical center. Also situated in the South Texas Medical Center is Health Careers High School, a health professions-based magnet school of Northside ISD that enrolls just under 1,000 students from around Bexar County. ==Gallery==

File:New UH Nima 02.JPG|Central to STMC is The University of Texas Health Science Center and its teaching hospital, University Hospital. File:Cancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (02 04 2007).jpg|The Cancer Therapy & Research Center File:Christus Santa Rosa medical hospital, South Texas Medical Center (02 04 2007).jpg|The Christus Santa Rosa medical hospitals, located in the northwestern quadrant of STMC File:Texas Neuroscience Institute, South Texas Medical Center (San Antonio, Texas, 13 July 2007.jpg|The Texas Neuroscience Institute ==Member institutions==

Member institutions with facilities and offices in the Center are: ==See also==

• South Texas Medical Center • San Antonio Medical Foundation's listing and extended listing