NYU School of Medicine
New York University, the largest private university in the United States, has an outstanding public service history in health, education, and the arts. Founded in 1831, NYU comprises 13 schools and colleges at five locations in Manhattan. More than 40,000 students from all over the nation and 110 countries attend NYU.
The School of Medicine, founded in 1841, enrolls about 150 students each year. The histories of the School and Bellevue Hospital arereplete with major discoveries, ranging from Austin Flint's description of heart murmurs, to Walter Reed's work on yellow fever, to the Nobel Prize-winning development of cardiac catheterization.
The current faculty are involved in the practice and teaching of medicine, and also participates in basic science and clinical research programs, currently pursuing nearly 1,000 investigational projects.
With the opening of the Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine in 1993, the School of Medicine ensured that its leadership role in research would continue well into the 21st century.
A revolutionary program, the Institute recognizes thatthe next generation of medical breakthroughs will cross conventional departmental borders and involve broad areas of biomolecular medicine. The Institute has brought together world-class scientists from a wide variety of scientific disciplines and, rather than arranging them in classical departments, has organized them into groups dealing with the most promising areas of modern research: Developmental Genetics, Molecular Pathogenesis, Structural Biology, and Neurobiology.
