Edinburgh Medical School
The Edinburgh Medical School (also known as University of Edinburgh Medical School is known), the Institute of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh . It was established during the Scottish Enlightenment in 1726 , making it one of the oldest medical institutes in the English-speaking world.
Edinburgh Medical School is consistently number one in the university rankings in Scotland. Nationwide, it ranks third behind the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the Guardian University Ranking and the Times University Guide Ranking . The associated university hospital, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is regularly voted the best hospital in Scotland.
The institute spawned several Nobel Prize recipients , including some Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine (e.g. Peter Doherty and Sir Robert Edwards ) and a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry ( Sir Fraser Stoddart in 2016). Furthermore, Sir Alexander Fleming , who discovered the antibiotic penicillin , served as rector for three years from 1951. Charles Darwin also studied there for two years before moving to England.
Edinburgh Medical School graduates founded other universities and medical institutes around the world, such as five of the seven Ivy League Medical Schools ( Yale , Pennsylvania , Harvard , Columbia and Dartmouth ), the University of Sydney , the Sydney Medical School, the University of Melbourne Medical School, the McGill University Faculty of Medicine, the Robert Larner College of Medicine, the University of Montreal Medical School, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (now the medical school of Imperial College London ), the University of Cape Town , Birbeck , the Middlesex Hospital and the London School of Medicine for Women (now part of University College London ).
Research centers
Edinburgh Medical School houses a total of seven research centers, including:
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences
- MRC Center for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology
- MRC Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine
- MRC Center for Human Genetics
- MRC Center for Inflammation Research
- MRC Center for Public Health Research and Policy
- MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine
- MRC Center for Reproductive Health
- Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology
- Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
- BHF Center for Cardiovascular Science
- Euan MacDonald Center for Motor Neurone Disease
- Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic (donated by Joanne K. Rowling )
- Edinburgh Cancer Research Center