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| Vol. 21, No. 23 |
| December 15, 1999 |
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March 1993 by MARK SEEGERS Baylor College of Medicine Houston's colleges and universities, led by Baylor College of Medicine, account for more than one-third of the state's research and development spending. What's more, three Texas Medical Center institutions - Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center - account for 27 percent (or $324 million) of the state's research and development expenditures. Texas colleges and universities spent more than $1.2 billion on research and development in 1991, the latest year for which comparative numbers are available from the National Science Foundation. Houston's top five academic institutions' research totals were:
Baylor College of Medicine's total of $161.1 million for research and development accounts for 40.6 percent of Houston's $396.9 million and 13.4 percent of the state total of $1.2 billion. Among all state institutions, Texas A&M University, with $288 million, ranked 8th in the nation in total research expenditures, and The University of Texas at Austin, with $237 million, ranked 16th. These rankings include spending in all areas of research at Texas A&M and The University of Texas, while Baylor College of Medicine's was all in the biomedical sciences. The top federal research totals in Texas are:
Dr. Butler notes that the economic impact of Baylor's research expenditures alone translates to more than $362 million. According to David J. Bachrach, executive vice president for administration and finance at M. D. Anderson, the Comprehensive Cancer Center leads the nation in the number of research grants from the National Cancer Institute, its principal source of federal support. "Our faculty at M. D. Anderson are among the leaders in the nation in cancer research," he says. "Houston should take great pride in that they have three of the nation's top research institutions located right here in the Texas Medical Center." Dr. Thomas F. Burks, executive vice president for research and academic affairs at The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, says the lion's share of the Health Science Center's research expenditures comes from the National Institutes of Health. He credits a "high-quality, energetic" faculty and a concerted effort by the Health Science Center to upgrade and replace aging scientific instruments and support animal care facilities and postdoctoral fellowship programs for a $15 million jump in research expenditures from 1988 to 1991. He lauds the School of Public Health and the Medical School for its success in attracting program project center grants and other multiple investigator project grants, and cites the School of Nursing and Dental Branch for its increasing emphasis on research.
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