At Houston Methodist, our deep commitment to finding new ways to prevent and treat illness to improve the health of our patients means that our primary goal is to make a clinical trial available to every person who needs and wants to participate in one. Houston Methodist monitors more than 1,430 clinical protocols and has over 500 active clinical trials.

Houston Methodist’s research faculty labs work to rapidly translate discoveries made in laboratories and clinics into new diagnostics, therapies and treatments. Cancer, heart and vascular conditions, radiology, immunobiology, infectious diseases, molecular medicine, nanomedicine, neurosciences, health care performance, regenerative medicine and transplantation are among the research areas our labs are focusing on today.

Houston Methodist has built more than 20 core facilities to provide our investigators and external researchers access to exceptional scientific technology. Whether an investigator is in the initial phase of discovery or is developing, testing or validating a new drug or device, the Research Institute has a core facility ready to assist in every step with technical expertise and state-of-the-art equipment.

Houston Methodist is an extraordinary place, built on our I CARE values of integrity, compassion, accountability, respect and excellence, while always keeping the patient at the center of everything that we do. Houston Methodist offers a wide variety of accredited and non-accredited residency and fellowship programs for physicians who want to pursue subspecialty training.

The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences has expanded its PhD program to the Houston Methodist Academic Institute, the research and education arm of Houston Methodist in the Texas Medical Center. This enhancement builds upon the 16+-year academic affiliation between Weill Cornell Medicine and Houston Methodist to train the next generation of physicians and scientists.

The first facility of its kind, MITIE now encompasses 35,000 square feet of research and training space dedicated to procedural skills acquisition and the development of image-guided technology, medical robotics, telementoring and new procedural techniques.