Biomedical Research
Baylor College of Medicine has dedicated more than 800,000 square feet (70,000 m2) 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. Housed within this research space are exceptional centers and facilities, such as:
- BCM's Human Genome Sequencing Center
- The Human Neuroimaging Lab
- The Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
- The Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
- The Huffington Center on Aging
- The Influenza Research Center
- The National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
- The W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology
- The Epigenomics Data Analysis and Coordination Center
- State-of-the-art core facilities, including microscopy, DNA sequencing, microarray, and protein sequencing
- One of the largest transgenic mouse facilities in the country
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