Welcome to the Department of Immunology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.  The Department was founded in 1998 with six faculty members and has currently expanded to a total of twenty-three primary and secondary faculty members.  Our primary research interests involve the characterization of animal models of human diseases, and the delineation of molecular mechanisms mediating normal and abnormal immune functions.  The research programs of the Department of Immunology faculty are funded by a combination of endowments and external grant support.  The Department is active in training graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with new positions and opportunities for training coming available each year.  The Department of Immunology is located in 25,799 sq. ft. of research space located in the Hamon Biomedical Research Building on the North campus of the UT Southwestern Medical Center.