Our Graduate School of Medical Sciences was founded in 1952 on the concept that the convergence of two premier institutions—Sloan-Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College—could offer an extraordinary research and training ground for future generations of biomedical researchers. As such, the school enjoys an unmatched opportunity to help shape the pace and progress of advances in biomedical science well beyond our own campus. Our school is one part of the “corridor of science,” a complex of institutions extending along York Avenue between 65th and 72nd Streets on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Our unique neighborhood includes the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Sloan-Kettering Institute, which together make up our Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WCGS); New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; the Hospital for Special Surgery; and The Rockefeller University. These institutions are a scientific hub of biomedical research, scholarship, training, and patient care.

Our campus of biomedical research spans the full spectrum of biomedicine from stem cell research to translational medicine—a truly unique environment. The WCGS faculty numbers more than 250, providing our students with one-on-one mentoring in an academically rigorous and stimulating environment.