Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine is considered the top medical school in the state of Texas, and one of the highest ranked in The United States.

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It was formed in 1900 in Dallas, Texas as University of Dallas Medical Department. It allied with Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1903 and moved to the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas in 1943.

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Dallas, Texas - Baylor University - Waco, Texas - 1903 - Texas Medical Center - Houston, Texas - 1943

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In 1969, Baylor College of Medicine separated from Baylor University under the direction of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey. Currently, it is led by Dr. Peter Traber, formerly of GlaxoSmithKline.

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1969 - Baylor University - Michael E. DeBakey - GlaxoSmithKline

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Currently, 168 medical students join the medical school each year, 75% of whom are from Texas. Baylor College of Medicine ranks 12th in the U.S. News and World Report rankings.

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Baylor College of Medicine is affiliated with many of the hospitals that make the Texas Medical Center the largest medical center in the world. These include the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran's Affairs Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, Ben Taub General Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research and the Menninger Clinic, which moved from Kansas in 2002. Methodist Hospital had been Baylor's primary private teaching hospital for many decades. Baylor and Methodist terminated many of their connections in 2004 for reasons that remain somewhat obscure but that seem to revolve around a planned ambulatory care center and ownership of the physicians' private practices. Baylor's primary private affiliate is now St. Luke's, while Methodist has affiliated with Cornell Medical College, which is located in New York City. Methodist and Baylor retain some affiliation, but there remains significant rancor between the two administrations and a significant lack of clarity in regards to the future of the many physicians and programs that had been been shared by the two institutions.

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Texas Children's Hospital - Menninger Clinic - Cornell Medical College

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Baylor College of Medicine is also home to a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Currently, 489 graduate students are enrolled in fourteen different PhD programs in a variety of fields, including Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Computational Biology, and Immunology, among others. BCM also contains the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, under the direction of Malcolm Brenner which hosts a part of the US National Gene Vector Lab and a fully accredited Good Manufacturing Practise (GMP) facility to allow research to be quickly translated to the clinic.

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Molecular Biology - Biochemistry - Computational Biology - Immunology - Malcolm Brenner

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