The Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute is a research center in
San Antonio
San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...
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Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
, US.
The institute was established in 1999 under a $200,000,000 endowment from the State of Texas tobacco settlement, at the time the largest single oncology endowment in US history. The $50 million facility was completed in 2004. The facility is part of the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA, pronounced "U-tesk-uh"), 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 Sys ...
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South Texas Medical Center
The South Texas Medical Center (STMC) or Bexar County, Texas, Bexar County Hospital District consists of of medical-related facilities on the northwest side of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
STMC, which directly serves 38 count ...
References
Cancer research organizations
University of Texas System
South Texas Medical Center
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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