Faculty and Researchers
PARTNERS ACROSS MAIN STREET
Our collaborations with the Texas Medical Center began auspiciously in 1964, when researchers from Rice worked with Dr. Michael E. DeBakey of Baylor College of Medicine to develop an implantable artificial heart. Today, these efforts have blossomed into a multitude of productive partnerships, large and small, in education, and research.
We are justly proud of all our joint programs with the Texas Medical Center and of their truly astounding range. Almost all of Rice’s academic divisions and several of our centers, institutes, and other offices are involved in one or more of these efforts, interacting with many institutions of the Texas Medical Center. Rice has been enriched immensely from these interactions.