The Trauma Research Center is a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research unit supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the United States' National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Trauma Research Program is an extensive, collaborative effort that draws upon several related sources all located within the Texas Medical Center in an effort to improve trauma medicine through translational research efforts. The Center's research focus is to study traumatic brain injury, resuscitation, hemorrhagic shock and organ injury/dysfunction.