History of research activities at Baylor University Medical Center

Michael A. E. Ramsay, MD, H. Lawrence Wilsey, PhD, Brenda Russell, JD, and George J. Race, MD, PhD

By the early years of the 21st century, Baylor Health Care System and Baylor University Medical Center had a well-developed research center-Baylor Research Institute (BRI)-that was able to sponsor significant basic and clinical research, with an emphasis on immunology. Even absent a large, full-time medical school faculty, Baylor had by the 1980s earned high standing in research-standing comparable to that of large, well-regarded community medical centers elsewhere in America. This article documents early research efforts, the founding of BRI and the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, administrative activities of BRI, and current research activities.