Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is the

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and the largest campus of

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospit ...

. The center's academic wing consists of Columbia's colleges and schools of Physicians and Surgeons, Dental Medicine,

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, and

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. The center's healthcare wing include

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, and the Audubon Biomedical Research Park. The center is located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of

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. The campus covers several blocks—primarily between West 165th and 169th Streets from Riverside Drive to

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History

The medical center 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

, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with an

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university: Columbia-Presbyterian with Columbia University, and

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-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 as Columbia University Irving Medical Center, for one of the hospital and the university's largest benefactors, Herbert and Florence Irving.

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was 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. The institution 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). In 2023, The Roy and Diana Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science was established with a $400 million donation from P. Roy Vagelos.

Gallery

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