Patrick Rose

Texas’ new cancer institute on Wednesday awarded its first round of research grants totaling $61 million to 15 institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas was created through a constitutional amendment touted by cyclist Lance Armstrong and approved by Texas voters in 2007. The amendment authorizes $3 billion in bonds for cancer research and prevention over 10 years.

AUSTIN, TX (January, 20, 2010) Rep. Patrick M. Rose (D–Dripping Springs) joined James Mansour, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Oversight Committee, Bill Gimson, CPRIT Executive Director, and Dr. Al Gilman, Chief Scientific Officer, in announcing the first round of research grants awarded by CPRIT today. Read more…

Tomorrow, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas is scheduled to announce the recipients of its first round of research grants. The grants will be multi-million-dollar awards, said institute spokeswoman Ellen Read. Texas voters in 2007 approved a constitutional amendment authorizing $3 billion in bonds for cancer research and prevention. Public and private entities in Texas can apply for the grants.

Sen. Jeff Wentworth and Rep. Patrick M. Rose recently announced that Andrew Sansom, Executive Director of the River Systems Institute at Texas State University, will facilitate a process among stakeholders of the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District (District) to build consensus on how to support its mission.

Strengthening their commitment to adult diseases, the researchers moved last year from a children’s hospital affiliated with the University of Southern California to Texas Tech’s Health Sciences Center, which was expanding its cancer program.

Sweetening the deal was Proposition 15, a 2007 amendment to the Texas Constitution setting aside $3 billion in state funds for researchers working on cancer.

AUSTIN, TX (December 9, 2009) – The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded its initial grant for a First-Time, Tenure Track Faculty Member to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The $2 million, 4-year grant will be utilized to recruit noted researcher Dr. Ralf Kittler to establish a fully independent laboratory focusing on the study of prostate cancer beginning February of 2010.

San Marcos — Preschoolers are having fun learning letters, numbers, shapes and how to write their names. These skills are also preparing them to be good learners when they go to kindergarten next year.

Three preschools in San Marcos were among 836 statewide that were recently certified as Texas School Ready!, which means these pre-k programs are offering [...]

The House Research Organization is a nonpartisan source of impartial information on legislation and issues considered by the Texas Legislature. Learn more about the eleven proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution by reading the HRO’s legislative history on each proposed amendment as well as arguments For/Against…

Rep. Rose partnered with Mr. Armstrong in 2007 to create the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. With support from a statewide coalition that included the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the American Cancer Society, Texas voters approved this 10-year $3 billion initiative to make Texas the leader in cancer research and prevention.

Texas already is no slouch when it comes to fighting cancer. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is one of the top research sites in the country, and the state is home to the headquarters of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.