Home

David P. Huston, MD

David P. Huston, M.D. is Vice Dean for Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Chief Academic Officer for the Houston Campus, and Director for the Texas A&M Center for Clinical and Translational Science.  He received his undergraduate degree from Wofford College and his M.D. from Wake Forest University. Dr. Huston trained in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and subspecialty trained in Rheumatology and in Allergy and Immunology at the NIH.  He was on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine for 28 years, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Immunology, held the Cullen Chair in Immunology, and was Director of the Biology of Inflammation Center and Co-Director of the HHMI Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine program in the Graduate School of Biological Sciences.  At Baylor, he also served as Chief of the Immunology Allergy and Rheumatology Section, Director of the Allergy and Immunology and the Rheumatology Training Programs, and Director of a NIAID/NIH Immunolgy Physician Scientist Training Program.  Dr. Huston has mentored over 30 M.D./Ph.D. students, and is a NIH funded investigator with over 100 publications and several patents.

His research involves studying the mechanisms of allergic inflammation and he is Co-Director for a NIAID/NIH Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Center.  As an active clinician, educator, and physician-scientist on immunological diseases, Dr. Huston’s career is committed to mentoring the next generation of physicians, biomedical scientists, and academic leaders in medicine.