NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC), also known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), is an

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and the largest campus of

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. It includes Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons,

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and

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, as well as the

Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian (MSCH or CHONY) is a women's and children's hospital at 3959 Broadway, near West 165th Street, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a part of NewYork-Pr ...

, the

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, the Audubon Biomedical Research Park, and other institutions. The campus covers several blocks—primarily between West 165th and 169th Streets from Riverside Drive to Audubon Avenue—in the Washington Heights neighborhood of

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History

CUIMC was built in the 1920s on the site of

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, the one-time home stadium of the

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. The land was donated by

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, who also donated most of the financing for the original buildings. Built specifically to house a

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and Presbyterian Hospital, it was the first academic medical center in the world. Formerly known as the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC), the name change followed the 1997 formation of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with an

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university: Columbia-Presbyterian with Columbia University, and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, with

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. The Medical and Graduate Education Building was designed by architects

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and

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and the structural engineer was Leslie E. Robertson Associates. In September 2016, the campus was renamed for one of the hospital and the university's largest benefactors, Herbert and Florence Irving.

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is a co-founder and former vice-chairman of

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. The hospital completed the first successful

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in a child, the first use of the anti-seizure medication,

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, to treat

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, and the isolation of the first known odour receptors in the nose. It supported discoveries related to how memory is stored in the brain, and Nobel Prize-winning developments in

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(1956) and

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(2017).

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