Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center, The Brown Foundation Human Neuroimaging Laboratory, the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center, The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, The Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine, a unit of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Child Health Research Center, The Huffington Center on Aging, and The Center for AIDS Research. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The Menninger Clinic, and The Methodist Hospital.īCM is home to the U.S. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, the Michael E. BCM is affiliated with the Harris County Hospital District, Texas Children's Hospital, The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, St. The college has 137,000 inpatient visits and two million outpatient visits annually. In 1903, the school affiliated with Baylor. BCM has 669 medical students, 471 graduate students, 736 postdoctoral fellows, 123 allied health students, and 1,007 resident physicians. Founded in 1900, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) started as the Medical Department of the University of Dallas. Today, BCM consistently ranks among the nation's top medical schools and receives nearly $270 million in NIH funding. In 1969, the school separated from Baylor University by mutual agreement and became an independent, nonsectarian private medical school-Baylor College of Medicine. Roger Guillemin who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Medicine for research conducted while he was at Baylor. His surgical achievements drew worldwide attention and top researchers to Baylor and to the Texas Medical Center, including Dr. DeBakey was named chair of surgery at the school. The building was the cornerstone of the Texas Medical Center, a 43-acre site that today is the location for 42 individual health institutions including two medical schools, four schools of nursing, 13 renowned hospitals, and two specialty institutions. Anderson Foundation, the school moved to Houston and set up classes in an old Sears Roebuck Warehouse near the banks of Buffalo Bayou in 1943.īy 1947, the school was entirely housed in the new Cullen Building, named for Houston oilman Roy Cullen and his wife Lillie. In 1903, the school affiliated with Baylor University in Waco and became Baylor University Medical School. Founded in 1900, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) started as the Medical Department of the University of Dallas. A top Texas Christian University, As one of the top Texas colleges & Universities, Baylor offers a variety of undergraduate & graduate programs.