Integrating biology & medicine
Known for rigorous scholarship and interdisciplinary collaborations, our offerings include undergraduate, graduate, medical, and postgraduate programs.
Octopus arms have segmented nervous systems to power extraordinary movements
The large nerve cord running down each octopus arm is separated into segments, giving it precise control over movements and creating a spatial map of its suckers.
Three UChicago physician-scientists elected to prestigious American Society for Clinical Investigation
Sonia Kupfer, Megan McNerney, and Akash Patnaik are among those elected to ASCI for 2025, one of the oldest and most esteemed nonprofit honor societies of physician-scientists.
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UChicago Medicine
At the forefront of medicine since its founding in 1927, the University of Chicago Medicine is a not-for-profit academic medical health system that includes hospitals, outpatient clinics and physician practices throughout Chicago and its suburbs. UChicago Medicine unites five organizations to fulfill its tripartite mission of medical education, research and patient care: Pritzker School of Medicine, Biological Sciences Division, Medical Center, Community Health and Hospital Division, and UChicago Medicine Physicians.
Our Clinical Departments are tightly integrated with UChicago Medicine with many of our faculty also being practicing physicians.