The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is situated on a sixty-acre campus, approximately two and one-half miles northwest of downtown Dallas. The medical center is presently undergoing expansion with the development of the North Campus on a nearby forty-acre site.
The laboratories of the 250 faculty of the Division of Basic Science (DBS), and the support laboratories available for their use, provide access for students to the equipment and facilities required for conducting state-of-the-art biomedical research. A central computer facility, animal facilities, electronics and machine shops, a comprehensive library and core laboratories for protein and oligonucleotide synthesis and sequencing, antibody production, NMR, computer modeling, etc. are available on the campus.
First year students are housed in a suite of rooms containing carrel space and lockers, a lounge area with kitchen, a lecture hall and administrative offices. A computer (PC) is installed in each of the five 12-student carrel rooms.