Stanford University School of Medicine

The Stanford School of Medicine is devoted both to promoting the health of our community and to advancing the frontiers of clinical medicine. As the oldest medical school in the Western United States, we have an illustrious history of translating medical breakthroughs into new treatments for patients.

Now with more than 750 full-time faculty in the life sciences and in virtually every specialty and subspecialty, our clinical science departments offer leading-edge diagnostics and therapies. Intrinsic to our mission is the recognition that only through the early adoption of novel approaches to fundamental biological problems, such as cancer and heart disease, can we offer the high level of care that our patients deserve.

Through collaborations with laboratory researchers, we also actively translate very basic discoveries into diagnostic and therapeutic applications at the bedside. Our biomedical scientists were the first to synthesize biologically active DNA in a test tube, setting the stage for the genetically engineered, biologically active therapies now used worldwide. More recently, our bioscientists developed microarray technology that allows researchers to determine which genes are active in diseases as diverse as cancer and rheumatologic disorders.

With an eye to the enormous promise of translating laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, we are now establishing five institutes to facilitate collaboration between scientists and clinicians in the most crucial fields of human disease: stem cells; cancer; neurosciences; immunology, transplantation biology and infections; and cardiovascular disease.

Stanford University School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 723-4000
med.stanford.edu

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