In 1943, the M.D. Anderson Foundation played a key role in bringing Baylor College of Medicine from Dallas to Houston, Texas. With a vision of developing Houston as one of the premier locations for healthcare innovation, the Foundation donated land within the proposed Texas Medical Center for a state-of-the-art education building, as well as $1 million to help build it and $1 million to support research. Together with the Foundation, Baylor has surpassed expectations by facilitating consistent breakthroughs in medicine and the health sciences.
Today, the Texas Medical Center is the world’s largest medical complex. Without the M.D. Anderson Foundation’s philanthropic vision to create an academic medical center and attract brilliant physicians and scientists, along with life-changing health outcomes, the workforce wouldn’t be possible.
Once again, Baylor is on the precipice of an exciting new era in healthcare thanks to the Foundation’s 80-year partnership and $5 million investment in the construction of the Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower, the new home for the School of Medicine and the School of Health Professions.
“Our future as a city is so tied up with the Texas Medical Center,” said James Crownover, president of the M.D. Anderson Foundation. “Our success as a city has depended greatly on attracting marvelous people from all over the world. This new venture, and Baylor’s part, will be so important in terms of getting great young talent and holding that talent in Houston. We think this is such a central part of the whole Texas Medical Center’s advancement and of Houston.”
“And because of our relationship with Baylor and our commitment to Houston, we saw this as a very important way we could participate. It will bring people and capital from all parts of the world,” he said.
