He was burned at the stake during an auto da fe on April 1, 1578. Another alumnus involved in an auto-da-fé was the doctor Francisco Maldonado da Silva, burned at the stake on January 23, 1639. In 1811, the School of Medicine of the University of San Marcos began its operations in the Hospital Real de San Andrés, a place that the university had already begun to use since 1792 when it inaugurated its first anatomical amphitheater there. This campus, which was part of the university, has great historical value to this day. On the one hand, because it is the oldest hospital in Peru and South America, and on the other, since it is the last place that —according to Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and José de Acosta— would have housed a group of mummies of Inca royalty, among these those of the emperor Pachacuti. Currently, archaeologists from San Marcos are involved in a project to enhance the local area as a cultural center and medicine museum. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest university in America (United States). In turn, the University of San Marcos, founded in the City of the Kings in 1551, is in a way its "counterpart" and "sister", being the oldest university in the Americas and thus, in Latin America. This historical peculiarity has contributed to the recent significant increase in cooperation between the two institutions in terms of student exchange, promotion of studies, teacher training, and support for researchers. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a program "Sanmarquinos for the Peru and the World" where more than 20 teachers and 140 students (the first two places in each professional school at the end of General Studies (sixth cycle) and student leaders) from the National University of San Marcos traveled to receive training through 15 days at Harvard University. After the expiration of the alliance with Laspau, after the COVID-19 pandemic, the program seeks agreements with other universities in the world, for example in 2022, the students had an internship at UNAM. In 1937 the "Clock Tower" of the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras was erected; it includes the shields of the University of San Marcos on the left, the shield of the University of Puerto Rico in the center, and the shield of Harvard University on the right. San Marcos established in Lima, Peru in 1551 is the oldest