Located in the heart of New York City, NYU Langone Medical Center is one of the nation's premier centers of excellence in health care, biomedical research, and medical education.

Legacy of Innovation

The origins of the Medical Center date back more than a century and a half to the founding of NYU School of Medicine in 1841. Since those days, NYU physicians and researchers have made countless contributions to the practice and science of health care, from the establishment of the first outpatient clinic in the U.S. just after the Civil War, to the creation of the first department of rehabilitation medicine in the 1940s, to Dr. Baruf Benacerraf's Nobel prize-winning studies of the genetics of the immune system in the 1960s.

That legacy of innovation continues today with state-of-the-art clinical programs in virtually every medical specialty and subspecialty, including aging and dementia; arthritis and rheumatology; breast, skin, and prostate cancer; child mental health; ear, nose and throat disorders; epilepsy; kidney and liver transplantation; minimally invasive cardiovascular surgery; neurology and neurosurgery; reconstructive and plastic surgery; stroke; and weightloss surgery, among other areas.

As an integral part of an academic medical center, NYU's clinical services are continually informed and enhanced by hundreds of ongoing basic and clinical research projects. Laying the foundation for further advances in health care, NYU has opened the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center, part of a major initiative in translational research that promises to speed the transfer of laboratory discoveries to the patient's bedside.

Our Family

Today, the Medical Center consists of NYU School of Medicine and the three hospitals of NYU Hospitals Center, including Tisch Hospital, a 726-bed acute-care general hospital, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, the first and largest facility of its kind, and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, a leader in musculoskeletal care.

NYU Langone Medical Center is also home to the NYU Cancer Institute, one of 41 National Institutes of Health (NIH)-designated comprehensive cancer centers; the NYU Center for AIDS Research, one of only 20 centers funded by the NIH to promote interdisciplinary studies of HIV/AIDS; and the NYU Child Study Center, which is dedicated to advancing the field of child mental health through evidence-based practice, science, and education. Other NYU Centers & Institutes.

Our Friends

The strengths of NYU Langone Medical Center extend far beyond the walls of the Hospitals Center and the School of Medicine. The Medical Center is also closely allied with the storied Bellevue Hospital Center and the Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health Care System, forming a "biomedical corridor" that stretches from 17th Street to 36th Street along First Avenue on Manhattan's East Side. Only slightly farther afield, the Medical Center has close ties to various health-related components of New York University's Washington Square Campus, including the Center for Neural Science, the College of Dentistry, the College of Nursing, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and the Courant Institute of Mathematics - creating an assemblage of clinicians, scientists, educators, and policy experts with few peers in the U.S. or abroad.

Befitting its location in the most diverse city in the world, NYU Langone Medical Center maintains extensive programs in urban and global health, immigrant health, and health disparities research, attracting investigators, clinicians, teachers, students, and patients from all over the globe.