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Younger sibling to The Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the nation's top clinical institutions for over 150 years, Mount Sinai School of Medicine has become a world leader in biomedical research.

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Research and clinical enterprises share space on Mount Sinai's campus, located next to Central Park in the midst of New York's famed Museum Mile.

Younger sibling to The Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the nation's top clinical institutions for over 150 years, Mount Sinai School of Medicine has become a world leader in biomedical research. Since the opening of the first research laboratory at the Hospital in 1893, the focus has remained on research designed to improve the human condition.

Today, Mount Sinai School of Medicine has the fastest-growing research program in New York, as measured by funding from the NIH. According to a recent study by the Rand Corporation, the School ranks 20th in the nation in the total amount of research funding from all federal sources.

Sharing a single administration and campus, the School and the Hospital work in concert not only to bring research discoveries to the ...

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