Majority of animals are mice with over 50,000 cages across the facilities. There are also a variety of other species including rats, cotton rats, pigeons, swine, sheep, primates, zebrafish and rabbits.

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a standalone medical school located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX, which is the world's largest medical center. Eight animal care and use facilities fall under the BCM umbrella, including the Michael DeBakey VA, Texas Children's Hospital, and a USDA children's nutrition research facility. BCM has approximately 360 principal investigators and more than 600 approved animal use protocols.

The BCM Postdoctoral Training Program in Laboratory Animal Medicine and Science is a three year training program designed to produce functional laboratory animal veterinarians who are board eligible with the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM). First year residents will rotate through all sections of the animal care and use program and develop familiarity with laws, regulations, and IACUC function and practice as well as with all species used and housed at the College. Residents will be exposed to all aspects of the management of animal care and use programs in these rotations. During the first year residents will choose a laboratory with which the research project will be performed in the second year. After becoming familiar with the animal care and use program, residents will take emergency on call duty in rotation with other staff veterinarians, under supervision of a staff veterinarian. Two off site rotations, at the Charles Rivers Laboratories NHP import and quarantine facility and the MD Anderson Michael Keeling Center at Bastrop, TX, will provide additional intensive, hands-on experience with nonhuman primates.

The second year of training is dedicated to performing research, with the goal of primary authorship on a hypothesis-driven, peer reviewed, scientific publication as part of the requirements for ACLAM boards eligibility. During the second year the resident will continue to participate in IACUC activities and take after hours call.

During the third year residents will take direct, oversight responsibility for facility and satellite housing areas as assigned and as per their interest areas, under the supervision of a staff clinical veterinarian. Third year residents will continue to participate in all aspects of IACUC activities and will work on completing the manuscript to generate a first author paper as above.

The research at BCM is diverse and includes but is not limited to research involving neoplasia, the microbiome, infectious diseases, genetics, neuroscience, cardiovascular physiology, nutrition, and reproductive sciences.

Interspecies Cohabitation of Agricultural Laboratory Animal Species as a Means for Social Housing. Poster for National AALAS meeting 2020