UTHSCT’s Dr. Michael Pangburn Receives Teaching Award

TYLER – A professor of biochemistry at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and director of its graduate program in biotechnology, Dr. Michael Pangburn, has received the Regents Outstanding Teaching Award from The University of Texas System Board of Regents.

This is the first year that faculty at the six UT health institutions have been eligible for the award. Dr. Pangburn is one of 40 faculty members from these health institutions to receive the 2012 award.

“We are all very proud of Dr. Pangburn receiving this prestigious award for his exemplary teaching. He is a gifted educator who leads the successful master’s degree program in biotechnology at UTHSCT,” said UTHSCT Vice President for Research Steven Idell, MD, Ph.D.

Dr. Pangburn, who joined UTHSCT in 1984, has taught students enrolled in the master’s degree program in biotechnology since 1996. As a scientist at the Biomedical Research Center, he has spent the past 36 years studying the complement system, part of the body’s innate immune system that is the first line of defense against illness or infection.

The UT System Board of Regents established this award for the nine academic institutions in 2008. Last year, the board authorized $6 million to expand the awards to health institution faculty. Each year the UT System will make 40 awards of $25,000 each to outstanding faculty at the health institutions.