TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

Research Shapes the Future

No one is surprised to be prescribed antibiotics for strep throat or administered anesthesia prior to knee surgery. Though these medical miracles are now taken for granted, both existed as unproven theories that required research and investment before becoming part of mainstream practice.

With the support and commitment of its philanthropic community, Houston Methodist physicians and scientists incorporate groundbreaking laboratory research into life-altering clinical practice every day.

So we can all envision a day when neurodegenerative conditions are managed with medicine, when cancer cells are routinely reprogrammed to self-destruct, when artificial intelligence detects disease at ever-earlier stages — and when these and other emergent advances move from the complex to the commonplace.

This is the promise of translational medicine at Houston Methodist.