Rice Thresher, Sept. 28, 2007 The Welch Foundation donated $1.6 million to UTMB this August for research on drug discovery. The donation made on behalf of the Dunn Gulf Coast Consortium for Chemical Genomics could lead to increased collaboration with Texas Medical Center in the future, Dean of Natural Sciences Kathleen Matthews said. Rice will work in tandem with researchers from UTMB, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Houston.