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{{Infobox University
|name = Baylor College of Medicine
|image_name = Bcm logo.png
|type = [[Private school|Private]] [[UniversityMedical school|Medical School]]
|established = 1900
|president = [[Peter G. Traber]]
|city = [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]
|state = [[Texas|TX,]]
|country = [[USA]]
|postgrad = 1,211 (678 in medical school, 533 in graduate school, and 130 in allied health)
|faculty = 3,378 (1,755 full-time, 327 part-time, 1,237 voluntary, and 59 emeritus)
|campus = [[Urban area|Urban]], [[Texas Medical Center]]|
|endowment = US $1.08 billion
|website = [http://www.bcm.edu/ www.bcm.edu]
}}

'''Baylor College of Medicine''', located in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]], is one of the world's leading centers for [[biomedical research]] and clinical care. Situated within the [[Texas Medical Center]], a {{convert|1000|acre|km2|sing=on}} complex that is home to 46 member institutions and is the largest medical center in the world, Baylor College of Medicine has affiliations with eight teaching hospitals, including the world-renowned [[Texas Children's Hospital, ]], [[MD Anderson|MD Anderson Cancer Center, ]], [[Menninger Clinic]] and Texas Heart Institute. It has been consistently rated the top [[medical school]] in the greater Southwest and is widely regarded as one of the top medical schools in the country, ranked 7th overall in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report top medical schools for primary care and 13th for research<ref>[http://www.bcm.edu/about/ About Us: Baylor College of Medicine] Accessed [[April 03]] [[2008]]</ref>. Its [[Graduate School]] of [[Biomedical research|Biomedical Sciences]] is also highly rated. BCM, despite being solely focused on medical and graduate education, has become one of 63 American colleges with an endowment greater than $1 billion<ref>[http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:XJ7Vc5mtAvwJ:www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0112636.html+endowment+college&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8 College and University Endowments, 2005] Accessed [[January 3]] [[2007]].</ref>.

==History==
(contracted; show full)* Molecular [[Virology]] & [[Microbiology]]
* [[Neuroscience]]
* [[Pharmacology]] (no longer accepting students)
* [[Cardiovascular]] Sciences
* Cell and [[Molecular Biology]]
* [[Developmental Biology]]
* [[Structural biology|Structural]] and [[Computational Biology]] & Molecular [[Biophysics]]
* 
[[Translational medicine|Translational Biology]] & [[Molecular medicine|Molecular Medicine]]
* Clinical Scientist Training Program

== Biomedical Research ==
Baylor College of Medicine has dedicated more than {{convert|800000|sqft|m2|-4}} of its space for laboratory research, and is adding another 322,000 in the next few years. According to the National Science Foundation 2004, BCM ranks sixth in R&D spending in the life sciences, behind UCSF, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, University of Washington, and University of Pennsylvania.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} Housed within this research space are exceptional(contracted; show full)
[[Category:Institutions in the Texas Medical Center]]
[[Category:Schools of medicine in the United States]]
[[Category:Universities and colleges in Houston, Texas]]

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