Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which is part of Montefiore Medicine, is a premier biomedical research institution with approximately $200 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Montefiore Medicine brings together the clinical, scientific, and educational enterprises of the Montefiore Health System and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. This organizational structure leverages the strengths of experienced academic and healthcare leadership and facilitates collaborations between the two entities in basic, clinical, and translational research.
Einstein has a comprehensive scientific infrastructure that enhances opportunities for research. The campus encompasses ~1 million sq ft of space for 300 laboratories and offices and houses several NIH-designated centers and centers of excellence. These include the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Diabetes Research Center, the New York Regional Center for Diabetes Translation Research, the Harold and Muriel Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, the Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY Center for AIDS Research, the Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, and the Institute for Aging Research.
Einstein is home to over 1,900 full-time faculty members, 740 M.D. students, 194 Ph.D. students, 118 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program and 235 postdoctoral fellows at the Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies. More than 9000 Einstein alumni are among the nation’s foremost clinicians, biomedical scientists, and medical educators. In addition to Einstein’s major research centers in cancer, aging, intellectual development disorders, diabetes, clinical and translational research, and AIDS, other areas of focus include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Einstein’s relationship with Montefiore supports a longstanding focus on bench-to-bedside research, through which discoveries in Einstein laboratories lead to treatments and therapies that benefit patients.
