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The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, located in the heart of the city just east of the university’s uptown campus, has a distinguished reputation for training prominent health care professionals and providing leading-edge research. The College of Medicine—a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institution—is a top-40 medical school for research according to U.S. News and World Report.

The college has made a commitment to:

Creating impactful and sustainable biomedical research programs.
Developing passionate and innovative research teams.
Becoming a destination for clinical trials.
Harnessing “big data” to be not just evidence-based, but also evidence-gathering.

Four institutes—operated jointly with UC Health and focused on cancer, neurosciences, cardiovascular disease and metabolic health—serve as the foundation for these commitments.

The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine was established in 1819 as the Medical College of Ohio by pioneering physician Daniel Drake. It became a part of the University of Cincinnati in 1896 and is considered the oldest medical college west of the Allegheny Mountains.

It is the second-oldest public college of medicine in the United States.

The College of Medicine has an exceptional list of alumni and current and past faculty who have made considerable contributions to medicine and to the medical sciences.

Significant Contributions to Medicine

First Live, Attenuated Polio Vaccine
First Heart-Lung Machine
UC Stroke Team Pioneers Treatment
Health Effects of Lead in Children
Study of Birth Defects Pioneered
Heart Failure Gene Identified
Development of Benadryl
Saving Preemies
Sniffing Out Disease
First Residency Programs
Guidelines for Treating Heart Failure
First Medical Laser Lab
First YAG Laser Used
Organ Transplant Discovery
Pioneering Gene Therapy
Cancer Gene Discoveries

The CARE/Crawley Building provides 240,000 square feet of new space on UC's medical campus, including lab, research, teaching and library facilities. It creates an open, urban-like setting, to encourage interactivity and a sense of collegial community.

STUDIOS Architecture planned and designed the building in collaboration with Harley Ellis Devereaux. Erik Sueberkrop, a UC alumnus, STUDIOS Architecture principal, and lead designer on the project, won the Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award for the building design in 2002.

A Green Building

Green spaces give way to green ideas in this environmentally friendly showplace-indoors and out.

The newest building on the medical campus may also be one of the "greenest" science buildings in the nation. The CARE/Crawley Building was designed with sustainability in mind, from its overall design to the materials and methods used in its construction.

The building is designed to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization committed to sustainable building practices. This will be a significant accomplishment for a laboratory research building, which by its primary function is energy intensive.